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A lopsided grasshopper on the salt marsh

I came across this little grasshopper while walking along the edge of a saltmarsh at the coast. It had one rear leg missing, but obviously had adapted very well. A milli-second after pressing the shutter it did a spectacular leap from the twig it was sitting on and vanished from view....

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Uploaded on September 4, 2010