Flea's high jump
A champion flea’s 12-inch leap may appear modest by human standards, but it actually jumps 200 times the length of its own body!
According to Guinness Book of World Records, one American experiment a specimen flea was allowed to leap at will performed a long jump of 13 inches and a high jump of 7 3⁄4 inches,” the high jump being about 130 times its own height.
Remarkably, repeated jumping never seems to tire out a flea.
One can jump along steadily for three straight days, 600 times an hour.
Lift-off for a flea is so rapid that it reaches a peak acceleration of 140 G’s—more than 30 times that endured by astronauts during the launch of the Saturn 5 moon rocket.
