Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 4 months agoFirst proof of leeches jumping captured on videowww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1223arrow-down1external-linkFirst proof of leeches jumping captured on videowww.earth.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareralakus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up53·edit-24 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-squareMeThisGuy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agothank you for the new nightmares… I’d much rather have a flying squid
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoWho wouldn’t? We’re pretty awesome.
minus-squareMeThisGuy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 months agocan you fly like stingrays? (manta rays?)
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI can fly like a jet! https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html
minus-squareMeThisGuy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 months agowow. TIL. thx… learn something new everyday
minus-squarecybersandwich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 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.
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