We’re pretty good at moving around in the world, but there are some animals that have efficient mechanisms that allow them to leap and bound wherever they go. Gears, bows, and springs allow these animals to be amazing jumpers. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Bella Nash, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Kangaroo “springs” animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/kangaroo-hopping1.htm www.discoverwildlife.com/animals/mammals/how-and-why-do-kangaroos-hop onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1975.tb05983.x/abstract Locust “bows” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22693029 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wjh/jumping/legsprng.htm Planthopper “gears” science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6151/1254 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643309004012 www.nature.com/news/insect-leg-cogs-a-first-in-animal-kingdom-1.13723 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQk-lP2R04Y Images: Kangaroo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unidentified_kangaroo_-Blue_Mountains,_New_South_Wales,_Australia-8.jpg Juvenile Planthopper Nymph: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nymph_of_Issus_coleoptratus_planthopper.jpg Planthopper Nymph: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Issus_coleoptratus_(Planthopper_sp.)_nymph,_Arnhem,_the_Netherlands.JPG

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