Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 6 months agoFirst proof of leeches jumping captured on videowww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1174arrow-down1external-linkFirst proof of leeches jumping captured on videowww.earth.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareralakus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-26 months agoVideo 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
minus-squarecybersandwich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months ago…that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business
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.
…that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business