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Leaping Power of Mantis1

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I CAN state from my own observations of several different species, both in Ceylon, South Africa, and Fiji, that the power is possessed by many, chiefly in the larval stage, and that the distances they can spring from branch to branch are very considerable for the size of the insect.

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LAYARD, E. Leaping Power of Mantis1. Nature 20, 481 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020481c0

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