Someone made this nice little video to demonstrate the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize-winning discovery that (in general) the fleas on a dog can jump higher than the fleas on a cat. BONUS (Unrelated): A web site devoted to imagery of bouncing cats.
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Fleas’ knees news: No. Feet!
The French team of Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc garnered the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat. Now comes further flea news, this time from the University of Cambridge (Thanks to investigator […]