15 Highest Jumpers the Earth Has Ever Seen

[Music] now check this out in 1993 Xavier Sotomayor did what nobody can repeat to this day he jumped over eight feet in height but to become the absolute champion Xavier would have to jump on to the Eiffel Tower confused I can understand let me explain looking at the average human you can't help but wonder how in the world did this soft and let's be fair clumsy looking creature ever get to the point where we all rest now we certainly aren't the apex predators here we aren't the fastest runners as cheetahs about that we can't properly swim or fly we don't succeed even in climbing but somehow we've climbed to the top rank of nature itself but we certainly didn't jump up there you think jumping you think something like a kangaroo these animals don't even walk they hop but boy are they good at that they can speed up to 44 miles per hour over short distances and on distances over a mile they will outpace the best human athletes that ever lived all thanks to their mighty legs but some can also use their thick tails as a third leg to launch them high up kangaroos can jump over to average people standing on top of each other you know Shaq there's a mouse that can jump well over his head in one hop and it's a kangaroo mouse in a way it's even cooler than what a kangaroo does because it's so tiny the kangaroo Mouse oh is its name to the big Australian brother because it also moves by jumping on the two hind legs when it jumps nine feet high it jumps ten times its own body length it can change direction however it wants with every leap good luck catching this one moving on to the ocean dolphins are the best jumpers here they can jump ten feet over the surface of the water and there is a chance you've seen it in a dolphinarium at least once the cool thing about dolphins is that since they live in water they have no need to jump like that they do it for sport and just for the fun of it just like us some animals may become champion athletes simply because they live besides nasty and always hungry beasts like lions or cheetahs impalas certainly do and they can leap over a small bus add this to the fact that they run pretty fast and you get the idea behind that initial leap it keeps impalas safe and lions themselves are no joke either even my cat can jump right on the fridge to get to the yummy treats double that height and this is how high a lion can jump things like that really makes you hope you never get to be in the poor impalas hooves mountain lions are even jumpier though when you have to leap from cliff to cliff and you need to catch something like a mountain goat for dinner you know your whole life depends on every single jump you make mountain lions also known as Cougars and Pumas have to hop high 20 feet high to be precise basically that means Pumas can jump over a giraffe's head now that's some high hopping yet when it comes to long jumping there are too many cheaters they cheat because they sort of can fly or Glide even fish can do that a flying fish can jump up above the water and use its fins to fly for over 40 seconds straight flying squirrels can glide over a football field all at once and even flying snakes can do that by launching themselves off the trees and slithering through the air in an S shape for over even longer distances my judgment on that gliding is totally banned in this competition it may seem that if you would jump like a frog can you would be able to hop onto the Statue of Liberty easily but here's a catch we think frogs are good at hopping because they jump really far not high when it comes to distance it's around 40 to 50 times their body length the absolutely master though is the American bullfrog which can jump over seven feet a frog human superhero would jump over the whole wingspan of a Boeing 747 with this ability now if I learned something from cartoons is that you should never try to catch the roadrunner you'll go over the cliff it's in the canyon every time but I also learned that rabbits are excellent at jumping white-tailed Jackrabbit in particular is one of the mightiest jumpers you can ever meet the best recorded hop this fluffy long eared pal ever performed would make it land right on the top of a giraffe head even mountain lions would learn to respect that if a predator needs a concentrated leap to give its best jump rabbits would do that any second as soon as they're startled and if I learned something else from cartoons rabbits are easily scared except for Bugs Bunny not scared that one grasshoppers can make all of the previous contesters run for their money ever seen those catapults they use for legs that's their musical instrument but more importantly it's a jumping machine capable of launching them from any danger I really didn't want to get to this scary part but spiders can jump too and the worst thing they can live anywhere if you want to assure your safety from them go to Antarctica but seriously they are harmless and extremely tiny and kind of cute looking things their legs aren't powerful they can just expand like Pistons launching them up to 50 times their own length it's like having boots with Springs in them jumping spider sure know how to have fun barking spiders are another thing entirely but still it's nothing next to a frog hopper this tiny insect jumps straight up 27 and a half inches which is 100 times its body length among the insects it's the jumpiest it possibly gets kangaroo with this kind of hopping power would jump on the Great Pyramid of Giza let's just say human athletes definitely don't stand a chance beating that but there is one contestant that can still fight for the title of the best Jumper in the world a flea it jumps only 10 inches high but for something that's small it's as if a person could jump over 250 foot tall building or the Eiffel Tower it's long legs allows it to jump 200 times its own body length and lift objects 150 times heavier than the flea itself fleas are more like space rockets than insects because while they launch into the air go through a lot more acceleration force than a rocket does when taking off and just like astronauts they can't go on for a long time even if a tiny hole appears in their sturdy armor overall fleas are yucky but in the jumping record charts you need to give credit where credit is due they are the best jumpers in the whole world but trap-jaw ant's can surprise even a flea not in how far and high they can jump but how fast for an outside observer it will seem like a trap-jaw ant just disappears in a fraction of a second in reality trap-jaw ant's can open their jaws 180 degrees store a lot of energy inside their head and then snap when in danger a trap-jaw ant aims its head downwards and launches itself up in the air faster than a speeding bullet Oh tiny plankton copepods are even more impressive than that though they to play a bit dirty when living in the water they still jump through it because being so tiny under the pressure almost bans you from conventional swimming fortunately cocoa pods have more than capable legs they launch them forward with the velocity of 1000 times their body length per second it's one of the most powerful movements ever recorded in the whole animal kingdom I guess it would still have to come out of the ocean to be to flee in this competition but in the water it has no equal now I don't know about you but this whole topic is making me kind of jumpy yeah I said it hey if you learn something new today then give the video a like and share with a friend and here are some other cool videos I think you'll enjoy just click to the left or right and remember stay on the bright side of life [Music]

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Keywords: best jumpers, animal facts, animal champions, copepods, trap-jaw ants, flea, froghopper, spiders, grasshoppers, rabbits, jackrabbit, bullfrog, frogs, flying fish, flying squirrel, flying snake, mountain lion, lion, impala, dolphins, kangaroos, kangaroo mouse

Id: 2zTJ2lfAxRo

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 13 2020