The World's Champion High Jumper

Anyone who owns a pet is likely to be all too familiar with a bothersome little insect called the flea. These hard-boiled, bloodsucking pests live in the hair of warm-blooded animals, and can pass from one host to another quite easily. But did you know that fleas do not have wings? Their mobility depends entirely on their extraordinary leaping ability. These meddlesome mites can jump one hundred times their own height—a feat comparable to a man's jumping as high as a forty-story building!

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