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Cherry salmon leaping
Each summer in the town of Kiyosato in Hokkaido Prefecture, the cherry salmon attempt to scale a waterfall as they look to spawn upstream. The sight of the thousands of indefatigable fish trying to leap up the water attracts about 25,000 people a year. Local officials say the fish will keep attempting the jump, relentlessly, until the end of August. Only a few will succeed.