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https://www.researchgate.net/public..._Propulsive_Leg_Movements_in_a_Jumping_Insect
"Many insects jump prodigiously by rapid and powerful movements of their hind legs.
Two arrangements of the hindlegs are found; those of grasshoppers and fleas move in separate planes at the side of the body;
those of the champion jumping insects, froghoppers and planthoppers, move counterrotationally in approximately the same near-horizontal plane beneath the body . In the latter, synchronous movements of the hindlegs are necessary to avoid rapid spinning in the yaw plane."
"To reveal the mechanism of this precise synchronization, we made high-speed videos of jumping in nymphs"
"The two propulsive hindlegs started moving within 30 ms of each other . Such precise synchrony would be difficult to achieve by 1-ms-long neural spikes."
"The mechanical gears in Issus enhance the synchrony between leg movements to the level of microseconds, so that they are more tightly coupled than most limbed motions."
"Many insects jump prodigiously by rapid and powerful movements of their hind legs.
Two arrangements of the hindlegs are found; those of grasshoppers and fleas move in separate planes at the side of the body;
those of the champion jumping insects, froghoppers and planthoppers, move counterrotationally in approximately the same near-horizontal plane beneath the body . In the latter, synchronous movements of the hindlegs are necessary to avoid rapid spinning in the yaw plane."
"To reveal the mechanism of this precise synchronization, we made high-speed videos of jumping in nymphs"
"The two propulsive hindlegs started moving within 30 ms of each other . Such precise synchrony would be difficult to achieve by 1-ms-long neural spikes."
"The mechanical gears in Issus enhance the synchrony between leg movements to the level of microseconds, so that they are more tightly coupled than most limbed motions."