When bugs sing
In The Songs of Insects, Pierce (1949) described the striped ground cricket, nemobius fasciatusfasciatus, which chirps at a rate proportional to ambient air temperature. Twenty chirps-per-second tell us it is 31.4°C; sixteen chirps and it’s 27°C. This is a natural example of an auditory display, a m...
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2002
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