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3 de ene. de 2021 · Fleas can jump distances of up to 50 times their body length. But how do they perform such incredible leaps? Dr Erica McAlister, Senior Curator of Diptera at the Museum, explains ...
10 de mar. de 2020 · No larger than a sesame seed and flattened side to side, fleas can slip through fur with ease. Their jump is so fast they seem to simply vanish and reappear somewhere else. “It's there and then...
10 de feb. de 2011 · Forty-four years after the debate about how fleas jump began, researchers say they've solved the mystery thanks to high-speed cameras that show the insects pushing off with their toes rather...
14 de feb. de 2011 · It was no small task, but researchers have solved a long-term mystery—how fleas jump. Now high-speed video (watch above) confirms the insects take off using their toes, scientists announced ...
10 de mar. de 2020 · Fleas are ridiculously fast jumpers. Sutton found that a flea could complete its takeoff in as little as one millisecond. Adult fleas use that fast jump to get away from danger, but also to leap onto their furry or feathered hosts.
10 de feb. de 2011 · Cambridge University scientists have solved the mystery of how fleas jump so far and so fast. It was known that the energy to catapult a flea over a distance up to 200 times its body length...
15 de sept. de 2009 · To find out more about the mechanism of the flea jump, Bennet-Clark and Lucey used a film camera taking 1000 images s –1, which enabled 20 jumps by an unstated number of fleas to be captured.
