Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.
, researchers report in the November. This mode of locomotion is a form of “porpoising,” when an animal leaps in and out of the water as it travels.So biomechanist Talia Weiss and colleagues collected cricket frogs from a swamp in North Carolina. Native to the eastern half of the United States and northeastern Mexico, these critters are so tiny that one can fit on a penny, says Weiss, formerly of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Cricket frogs cyclically jump and belly flop their way across water. This high-speed video shows their “porpoising” locomotion at normal speed and at one-twentieth speed.
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