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stridulatory organs

In insects, organs that produce sound when rubbed together. Crickets rub their wings together, but grasshoppers rub a hind leg against a wing. Stridulation is thought to be used for attracting mates, but may also serve to mark territory.

Temperatures can be determined from the stridulations of crickets: adding 40 to the number of chirps counted in 15 seconds gives the approximate temperature in Fahrenheit.
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Single peaks were detected in all recordings, collections of peaks which sounded like grinding were detected in 95% of recordings, and stridulation was detected in 14%.
Zoology and entomology by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
The very language of the books refuses simplicity, Philip Pullman's diction including, without explanation, words such as evanescent, sanguine, calumny, nimbus, stridulation and decoction.
Borrowing from Paradise Lost by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Although crickets and other musical insects rasp a scraper over a fibbed surface, scientists had never before demonstrated such stridulation in a vertebrate, say Bostwick and Richard Prum of Yale University in the July 29 Science.
Wing ding: bird rubs feathers for cricketlike song by Milius, S. / Science News
 
 
 
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