{"id":61761,"date":"2021-03-24T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=61761"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:44:20","slug":"new-video-springtails-jumping-in-super-slow-motion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/new-video-springtails-jumping-in-super-slow-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video: Springtails jumping in super-slow motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXeSnWY6DNc\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/staff\/adrian-smith\"><strong>Dr. Adrian Smith<\/strong><\/a>, Head of the Museum\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/research-collections\/laboratories\/evolutionary-biology-behavior-lab\"><strong>Evolutionary Biology &amp; Behavior Research Lab<\/strong><\/a>, has posted a new video showing off-water jumps of the semi-aquatic collembola <em>Sminthurides aquaticus<\/em> and solid ground jumps of <em>Dicyrtomina minuta<\/em> captured in slow motion video, filming at speeds over 73,000 frames per second! These animals are fast and incredible!<\/p>\n<p>The image of <em>Sminthurides aquaticus<\/em> is by Andy Murray. Check out his amazing collembola photography here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosofdelight.org\/\">https:\/\/www.chaosofdelight.org\/<\/a>\u200b.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are a few of the published studies describing and filming these jumps prior to Dr. Smith&#8217;s work:<\/strong><br \/>\nBrackenbury &amp; Hunt (1993) Jumping in springtails: mechanism and dynamics. <em>J. Zool.<\/em> Lond. 229: 217-236<br \/>\nSudo et al. (2013) The Kinematics of Jumping of Globular Springtail. <em>Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms<\/em> 3:85-91<br \/>\nSudo et al. (2015) Jumps of Water Springtail and Morphology of the Jumping Organ. <em>Journal of JSEM<\/em> s117-s124<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61766,"menu_order":5,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/61761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/61761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}