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Monday 1 July 2019

Spot the Frippet: something saltatorial.

Something that's saltatorial is something that's made for jumping.

It might be something like this:

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photo of a painted grasshopper* by Kelvin Santarita

or this:

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litoria xanthomera. Photo by Rainforest_harley

or this:

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photo by Rafal Dudek

I suppose that must include human legs, too:
















Chenxin Liu. Photo by Fanny Schertzer

But please don't overdo it.

Spot the Frippet: something saltatorial. This word comes from the Latin saltātōrius, concerning dancing, from saltātor, a dancer.

*grassjumper?

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