This article from gizmodo.com confirms my belief that your average bug (or Mother Nature, at least) is way smarter than we are: http://gizmodo.com/this-insect-grows-its-own-microscopic-gears-to-move-abs-1302488227

 

Seems that this particular kind of teenage bug has evolved bio-gears to help it jump, giving it an acceleration of a whopping 400 g! Pictures are from the website above.  The adults are more responsible, of course.

 

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