Skip to content
ScienceBlog.com
  • Featured Blogs
    • EU Horizon Blog
    • ESA Tracker
    • Experimental Frontiers
    • Josh Mitteldorf’s Aging Matters
    • Dr. Lu Zhang’s Gondwanaland
    • NeuroEdge
    • NIAAA
    • SciChi
    • The Poetry of Science
    • Wild Science
  • Topics
    • Brain & Behavior
    • Earth, Energy & Environment
    • Health
    • Life & Non-humans
    • Physics & Mathematics
    • Social Sciences
    • Space
    • Technology
  • Our Substack
  • Follow Us!
    • Bluesky
    • Threads
    • FaceBook
    • Google News
    • Twitter/X
  • Contribute/Contact

Leech behavior

Screenshots capturing the first definitive videographic evidence that at least one leech species, Chtonobdella sp. from Madagascar, can jump. The images show the leech coiling back in preparation before launching itself into the air.

Leaping leeches! Video Footage Confirms Madagascar Home to Jumping Critters

Substack subscription form sign up

Comments

  • Tom on The Serotonin Circuit That Makes Tinnitus Louder
  • Josh Mitteldorf on Red States and Blue States Are Becoming the Same Unhappy Country
  • Josh Mitteldorf on Scientists Have Written the Rules for First Contact, and Step One Is Don’t Panic
  • John E on A New Theory Says DMT Entities Might Be Real, and Proposes How to Test It
  • ScienceBlog.com on A New Theory Says DMT Entities Might Be Real, and Proposes How to Test It
© 2026 ScienceBlog.com | Follow our RSS / XML feed