In general, many frogs are capable of jumping thirty times their length, although it depends on the species. To hunt and escape their predators, some tree frogs can jump fifty times their body length, the equivalent of a person jumping a football field without taking a run. Others, like those of the genus Rhacophorus , are called flying frogs for their ability to glide down from the branches of the bushes where they live.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the biggest jump in history corresponds to Santjie, a pointed-nosed frog, Ptychadena oxyrhynchus , which reached 10.3 m during a contest held in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) in 1977. In Calaveras County In California, an annual show jumping competition is organized. There, the champion was a bullfrog nicknamed Rosie de Ribeter, who made a modest jump of 2.1 m in 1986. In 2013, a group of scientists attended the contest, and of the 3,124 jumps they recorded, one reached 2 , 2 m.
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