Videos recorded in Madagascar have shown that leeches can jump, resolving a long-standing debate among biologists. The footage captures the leeches coiling their bodies like cobras to propel themselves from leaf to leaf, demonstrating their acrobatic abilities. A grad student's chance video during a field trip has provided crucial evidence, debunking the myth that leeches cannot jump. The discovery sheds new light on the behavior of ground-dwelling leeches and their surprising agility.
Leeches have a reputation for clinging stubbornly to their hosts, but one species has a more acrobatic side: It leaps through the air. Learn more: https://t.co/VMyQNf4ZPJ @ScienceVisuals https://t.co/Xar7167VoZ
Leapin’ leeches! This cell phone video might resolve a long-running debate over leech acrobatics. https://t.co/8vmLs6plO2 https://t.co/tfGI4Na1Lo
Scientists have debated for decades whether land-dwelling leeches can jump – now we have the first video evidence that they can. https://t.co/tPxERR2quW
Leaping Leeches Loom Large in Madagascar https://t.co/S3wvkMLv7p
Leeches have been caught jumping on video! Their springy prowess has been contested for over a century. But @ctaylsaurus says we now have proof, and we also know how they do it 🎧 https://t.co/BpwUttRyMa https://t.co/wgjzlWQmoQ
Shown with a land-dwelling leech feeding on her chin, researcher Mai Fahmy has opened a new chapter — with cell phone videos — of a century-old debate about whether leeches can jump. (She’ll take a leech over a mosquito bite any day.) https://t.co/8vmLs6plO2 https://t.co/Be24OtvwMU
"White men can’t jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan rainforest." https://t.co/tcqTq4hzTE
For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares. But a grad student’s serendipitous cell phone video might resolve a long-running debate over leech acrobatics. https://t.co/8vmLs6plO2
Groundbreaking video filmed in Madagascar is appears to be proof that some ground-dwelling leeches can jump. https://t.co/TCVK8v06hK
Scientists observed leeches jumping like striking snakes, resolving long-standing debate https://t.co/RxOyTQWdtw
Sorry To Inform You But Leeches Can Jump – And They've Been Caught On Camera https://t.co/Ja3kcwOJZ5
Watch leeches jump by coiling their bodies like cobras https://t.co/iGQCLDDhcr
A chance video by a grad student relishing her first big field trip might help resolve an argument that’s raged among biologists for more than a century. The question: Can leeches jump? https://t.co/8vmLs6plO2
Video shows leeches jumping from leaf to leaf in groundbreaking discovery https://t.co/MNdc5dY0yk
Videos Show That Leeches Can Jump in Pursuit of Blood 😱 There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics. https://t.co/DLqGGJvI3y