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A jump by a 5th instar mantis captured at 1000 frames s−1 and an exposure time of 0.2 ms.

Take-off speed in jumping mantises depends on body size and a power-limited mechanism

G. P. Sutton, M. Doroshenko, D. A. Cullen, and M. Burrows

Journal of Experimental Biology 2016. 219:2127-2136; doi: 10.1242/jeb.133728