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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Main Authors: Paul Vickers, James L. Alty
Format: Default Article
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/3357
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