Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound… Here are the jumpers with their maximum distance in one leap. Arboreal species distances are limb to limb.Happy Leap Day!
Bullfrog Rana catabeinsis 6.5 feet
Cougar Puma concolor 27 feet !!!
Red Fox Vulpes vulpes 15 feet
Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonicus 3 feet
Woodland Jumping Mouse Napaeozapus insignis 13 feet!
Oh, go take a flying leap!!!
Flying Squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus 148 feet !!!
Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis 19 feet
Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 6 feet
Snowshoe Hare Lepus amaericanus 20 feet !!!!
(they don't call them Lepus for nothin'!)
Spittlebug Philaenus spumarius 2 feet
Cat flea Ctenocephalides felis 1 foot
Grasshoppers (many spp.) 3 feet
White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus 40 feet
oh deer!
Take a leap,
The Dorr Museum of Natural History
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