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Video link for anyone interested.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/science/2024/06/21/jumping-leeches-video-first-time/74169034007/
Better video with almost no editing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/leeches-jumping-video/104007924
Actual paper and video source citation (locked behind many paywalls)
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar
Mai Fahmy, Michael Tessler Biotropica,
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13340
Thank you.
thank you for the new nightmares.. I'd much rather have a flying squid
Who wouldn't? We're pretty awesome.
can you fly like stingrays? (manta rays?)
I can fly like a jet!
https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html
wow. TIL. thx.. learn something new everyday
...that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business