Jumping leech-2023 (VIDEO)

American Museum of Natural History

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This video taken in 2023 in Madagascar shows two Chtonobdella leeches questing on the same leaf and briefly interacting with each other. Then, as in the 2017 video, one leech assumes a recoiled body posture before jumping from the leaf to the ground. 

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© Mai Fahmy

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