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Watch Frogs Fling Themselves Across The Water's Surface – One Impressive Belly Flop At A Time
Most frogs jumped three to four times across the surface – and, surprisingly, were recorded fully submerged in the water before each subsequent leap. The team observed wild frogs jumping up to ...
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This Frog Is In Its Belly Flop Era
If you are light enough, the water’s surface is just another place to stretch your legs. The animal kingdom abounds with ...
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A fast-moving belly flop: Researchers unveil the unique skills of cricket frogs
Jake Socha, the Samuel Herrick Professor in Mechanical Engineering, leads a research team that studies the cricket frog's unique ability to "skitter," another name for jumping multiple times in ...
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Hilarious 'Fast-Moving Belly Flop' Lets Frogs Walk on Water
"Skittering is not actually a well-defined word for this behavior – one naturalist used it to describe a 'jumping on water' behavior in frogs in 1949, and since then, it's been used for this type of ...
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Watch Frogs Fling Themselves Across The Water's Surface – One Impressive Belly Flop At A Time
“Skittering is not actually a well-defined word for this behavior – one naturalist used it to describe a ‘jumping on water’ behavior in frogs in 1949, and since then, it’s been used for ...