Comparison: The Best Jumpers Among Animals

leaping lemurs and jumping giraffes awesome alliteration huh it's the list you never know you needed which animals have the best ups and we're do humans stack among them stick around to find out where your jump would be astronomical and where would be impossible starting with elephants they can't jump at all along with sloths hippos and rhinos their leg bones don't have the spring action that ours do no need to jump when you're massive size protects you the jumping pit vipers like any snake can strike at a distance 1/3 to 1/2 its body length so for this 2 foot long serpent that would be up to 1 foot but this snake strikes so fast and powerful its whole body leaves the ground yep we humans are pretty weak jumpers you can usually leap a little farther than your own height for the average person that's roughly 6 feet but our species does excel at long distance running we share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees they obviously got the jumping gene over 7 times their height in a single bound though their leg muscles are less than half the size of ours they generate twice the power giraffes can jump just not very high only 1/6 of their total body length they don't do it often since their six-foot neck gives them all the ups they need that same extremely long neck is ironically too short to reach the ground surprisingly horses don't like to jump either and they don't get very high when they do the world-record broken in 1949 almost tripled the average horses jump horses are the only single code animal on the planet yep they stand run and jump on one digit Michael Jordan was known for getting air his 4 foot vertical leap quadrupled the regular Joe's and even doubled the average for most NBA players his mind-blowing 15-foot leaf that famous foul line dunk more than doubled what most of us can pull off squirrels can jump six times their own height they're really smart too they pretend to bury food to trick thieving squirrels watching them when they do really bury their nuts they tend to forget where they hit seventy five percent of them oops note to self learn map making a kangaroo standing vertical jump is more than its own height meaning it be like you jumping right over your friends head fun fact on land kangaroos can only move their hind legs together in water they can kick them separately when deer could easily hop right over the other but a deer can't jump both high and far at the same time by the way deers have antlers but antelope have horns because antlers are shed and replaced each year horns aren't didn't know that a six foot jump is six times the average house cats own hike cats love to be high up like on a bookshelf or fridge it's instinct to want to watch over their territory for dogs it varies drastically depending on the breed so here are the record holders a greyhound aptly named feather jumped nearly six and a half feet in the air in 2017 a whippet named Sounders leaped over 36 feet in 2019 hey I fell over 24 feet last night I was trying to get to my seat at the movie theater a cassowary could jump right over your refrigerator just don't test that please this heaviest burden Australia has a 5 inch toe claw that could not end well for you Olympic athletes seem to be superhuman Xavier Sotomayor is record-breaking 8 foot high jump is eight times the average and Mike Powell's 29 foot long job five times [Music] penguins aren't amazing jumpers on land but they can easily reach nine feet when torpedoing up out of the water and onto the ice they do it by wrapping their bodies in a coat of tiny bubbles that reduce drag an Impala can jump ten feet up you'd have to be on the moon to get air like that they're pretty smart too they purposely visit water holes during the hottest part of the day when animals that feed on them are the most sluggish the Atlantic salmon swim hundreds of miles upstream to lay eggs in the same exact place where it was born that often includes jumping up to twelve feet in the air to clear waterfalls lions can leap five times their body length almost enough to clear a school bus and just like your kitty a lion can sleep up to 20 hours a day Springbok are excellent hoppers they even do this thing called prawn king where they show off how high they can jump the name means jumping antelope in Afrikaans a European hair can jump 15 feet in the air rabbits can only reach about a third of that the power comes in a hair's longer legs a hairs fur also changes color throughout the year a rabbit's dozen Cougars dominate both jumping vertically and leaping horizontally one could jump right over a giraffe and leap over a school bus long ways the ancient Incan city Cusco and Peru was designed in the shape of a cougar because the animal symbolized the power of the earth dolphins leap 25 feet into the air while swimming because it saves time and energy there's less resistance in the air than in the water they do it also to get a good view of their surroundings a klipspringer is an adorable little antelope that can jump 25 feet straight up into the air that's ten times their body height it'd be like a human springing up to a fifth storey window you could do that if you were on the asteroid series a lemur leaps 12 times its body length and that's mostly in the trees on land they do more of a funny hop skip these animals can be from 3 inches to 3 feet tall but there used to be prehistoric lemurs the size of a gorilla a humpback whale can't exactly jump its entire body out of the water but 50 feet is close this breaching isn't just whales coming up for air they also do it to hunt and communicate with others and now we enter the territory of not impressive distances but ratios a grasshopper can jump 20 times its own size that would be the equivalent of you jumping over a basketball court a single grasshopper can eat half its body weight in plants in just one day at our share is a unique little primate that's like a cross between a monkey and a lemur they leap between branches 16 feet apart which is 40 times their own length they also have the largest eyes compared to body size among all mammals a kangaroo rat can only leap about 9 feet but that's 45 times their size these desert rodents never drink water in a lifetime they get all the hydration they need from the seeds they eat the African frog could line up 50 of its friends and leap right over them frogs don't also need to drink since they absorb water through their skin and that bubble thing on their throat is called a vocal sack it helps make their calls louder Frog hoppers are also known as spit bugs because of the foamy saliva lichen casings their nymphs stand you they can jump 70 times their body height the g-force created during that jump is 80 times greater than what an astronaut launching into space on a rocket fields that's cool but I just can't get past the foamy saliva thank God a jumping spider can leap 100 times its body length which would be like a human clearing two jumbo jets jumpers make up 13% of all spider species terrifying I know and they release a safety net thread of web when they leave the flea known for its crazy ups can jump only 7 inches but that's 150 times their height like you or me jumping right over the Eiffel Tower their 13-inch leap is even more impressive it's 220 times their length but the famous flea isn't today's jumping champion that would be a tiny crustacean called a coke pod they're about as long as a dime is thick but they can leap 500 times that they're also the fastest jumpers it'd be the equivalent of a human reaching 3,000 miles per hour that's four times the speed of sound in a leap now if you really want to go somewhere where your jump will be out of this world just head to comet 69p your vertical leap would be infinite the gravity is so weak you could jump right off it and into space compare that to earth where you'd need to go 25,000 miles per hour to break free from gravity's pool or the opposite the one place no creature human or animal could jump a neutron star jumping wouldn't exist because the third dimension of height wouldn't be a thing the gravity is so immense life would be too deep whoo Shakespeare to D or not to D that ain't a question

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Published: Sat Jul 18 2020