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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 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...
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...
Summary. Cat fleas jump an average horizontal distance of 8 inches (20 cm), and an average height of 5.2 inches (13.2 cm). At a maximum, the best performers can jump as far as 19 inches (48 cm), and as a high as 7.9 inches (20 cm).
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.
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 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...
