Flying Squid to science • 5 months agoFirst proof of leeches jumping captured on videowww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square33arrow-up1231arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1223arrow-down1external-linkFirst proof of leeches jumping captured on videowww.earth.comFlying Squid to science • 5 months agomessage-square33file-text
minus-square@ralakuslink53•edit-25 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•5 months agothank you for the new nightmares… I’d much rather have a flying squid
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-25 months agocan you fly like stingrays? (manta rays?)
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlink2•5 months agoI can fly like a jet! https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•edit-25 months agowow. TIL. thx… learn something new everyday
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