From the brains behind Brains on, this is moment of um.

Answering those questions that make you go. Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, uh,

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and uh, welcome to Welcome to your moment of home. I'm Mark Sanchez. Today's question is about this sound.

The word cricket comes from the French word cricket,

cricket, which was inspired by the sound.

Cricket, cricket, cricket, cricket,

kind of sounds like a cricket, right?

The same sound also inspired Danny in

Parker, Colorado to send us this cricket question.

Why do crickets chirp for primarily one reason, which is to communicate with each other.

But it's almost exclusively male crickets who do the chirping and female crickets who do the

listening. So if you're outside on a hot August night

and you hear a bunch of crickets,

you're probably hearing males singing

their most common kind of song, which is a calling song.

And males sing calling songs to attract females so that they can mate.

Imagine if you were a cricket trying to find a female cricket in a big field with a lot of grass

and stuff, it would be hard just by walking around and hoping you would bump into him.

And so males sing this song to sort of advertise both their location and how good of a mate they'd be to females.

So it's sort of like they're saying,

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