An appetite for blood may have provoked acts of startling athleticism, documented in a pair of videos... waves back and forth on its quest for blood. Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half. Finally, the leech leaps, flying through the air with a kind of wild abandon.
Her 10 second clip, taken on a whim, turned out to be the first recorded visual evidence known to science of leeches jumping. There had been other claims of leaping leeches.
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