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So what you're listening to now, that's a recording from the rainforest.

That's Mark Holder-Reed, the University of Bristol in the UK. He specializes in bioacoustics, how animals produce sound and communicate with the sounds they make. In the recording you just listened to, Holderid removed the sounds we humans can hear and reduce the frequencies of the sounds we normally wouldn't hear so that they're audible to our ears.

Rainforest is a very noisy environment. There are insect sounds, bird sounds, there's leaves rustling,

and all of this makes it harder for you to detect something you want to hear.

Holderid is particularly interested in sounds from the ultrasonic range.

These are frequencies our ears can't detect.

But they come in loud and clear for a sword-tailed cricket in Panama.

Here's their habitat, slowed down so we can hear it.

Holderid and colleagues at the universities of Bristol and Graz in Austria recently discovered

the Swartail Cricket has a novel survival strategy when it comes to their life in this noisy

environment.

But up there, it's mainly other insects that produce noises that stop you from detecting what you really want to

detect, and that is a creditor that might attack you.

Every night, hundreds of species of hungry bats fly around the rainforest and use

echolocation to hunt for their meals, which can include the cricket.

So we are talking neotropical rainforests and they team with different

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