{"id":122588,"date":"2021-05-14T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/fruit-flies-can-travel-six-million-times-their-body-length"},"modified":"2021-05-14T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T03:23:10","slug":"fruit-flies-can-travel-six-million-times-their-body-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/fruit-flies-can-travel-six-million-times-their-body-length","title":{"rendered":"Fruit flies can travel six million times their body length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fruit-flies-can-travel-six-million-times-their-body-length2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a new study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\">California Institute of Technology<\/a>, experts have discovered that fruit flies can fly up to 15 kilometers in a single journey. This distance is the equivalent of the average human traveling over 10000 kilometers, or more than 6200 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The record for the longest distance by a human was set in 2005, when an ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes ran continuously for 80 hours over 350 miles \u2013 roughly 324000 times his body length. The Caltech study has found that fruit flies can travel up to six million times the length of their body.<\/p>\n<p>The experts designed a series of \u201crelease and recapture\u201d experiments involving hundreds of thousands of fruit flies under various wind conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. In a new study from the California Institute of Technology, experts have discovered that fruit flies can fly up to 15 kilometers in a single journey. This distance is the equivalent of the average human traveling over 10000 kilometers, or more than 6200 miles. The record for the longest distance by a human was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}