how high can a flea jump?

biofo

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10 years ago

Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

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bolbol

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3 years ago

Fleas can jump that high BECAUSE they're tiny. (I think it's called the square-cube law: basically muscle cross-section increases quadratically with size but volume - and thus mass - increases cubicly) If you scaled a flea up to a human's size, it would hardly be able to stand.

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