{"id":3339,"date":"2021-07-16T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frogpets.com\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2021-07-16T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:55:30","slug":"how-high-frogs-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frogpets.com\/how-high-frogs-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"How High Can Frogs Jump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Taking a stroll in the evening with my kid brother, a frog jumped out of the water suddenly and my brother was amazed at the sight of it and he immediately turned to me and asked me a question \u201cdo frogs always jump that high, or was that a coincidence?\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This question left me stunned that I was unable to find a perfect answer to the question asked. Then I realized that I have never paid serious attention to how a frog jumps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when he asked the question and I couldn\u2019t answer him, that prompted me to research it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How high a frog can jump depends on their kind, but all frogs can at least make a jump twice their height. I am old enough to know that at least. I grew up in an environment where we see frogs daily and the noise they make in the night is not something new to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some species of frog are better jumpers and a typical example of that is the tree frog, they can jump 10 times their height<\/strong>. Smaller frogs are lighter and they tend to jump higher than the big ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Because they are light, it makes it easier to lift their body but this will be a bit difficult for the bigger ones because they are heavier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How far a frog jumps is greatly dependent on its skeletal structure or call it the structure of its body and this makes it either easier or harder to jump. A lot of frogs can make a jump 30 times their body length<\/a> while the smaller tree frogs can make a jump 50 times their body length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interesting: Some frogs have webbed toes and they use these as parachutes to reduce the speed of their fall and move effortlessly from one thing to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People think that the stronger the leg muscle of a frog the higher the jump. They think that the leg muscle enhances the jump. This is a wrong perception because the leg muscle plays little or no role in making a high or far jump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The tendons are the secret to frogs jump. Their tendons expand when the frog is getting ready to make a jump<\/strong> and while this is happening, the leg muscles reduce and then pass energy to the tendons. <\/p>\n\n\n\nFrog Jump Length<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How Frogs Jump<\/h2>\n\n\n\n