Cricket Avoids Being Bat Food by Doing Nothing
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:41.0 | Oh! swing. from the rainforest. That's Mark Holdareed, the University of Bristol in the UK. He |
| 0:55.6 | specializes in bioacoustics, how animals produce sound and communicate with the |
| 1:00.6 | sounds they make. In the recording you just listen to, |
| 1:04.0 | Holdaree remove the sounds we humans can hear |
| 1:08.0 | and reduce the frequencies of the sounds we normally wouldn't hear |
| 1:12.0 | so that they're audible to our ears. |
| 1:15.0 | Rainforest is a very noisy environment. |
| 1:20.0 | Insect sounds, birds sounds, leaves rust leaves rustling and all of this makes it harder for you to detect something you want to hear. |
| 1:27.5 | Holdareed is particularly interested in sounds from the ultrasonic range. |
| 1:32.0 | These are frequencies our ears can't detect, |
| 1:35.0 | but they come in loud and clear for a sword-tailed cricket and Panama. |
| 1:39.0 | Here's their habitat, slowed down so we can hear it. |
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