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The Tuned Cricket
1Centre for Sound Communication, Institute of Biology, Odense University, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
Abstract:
Communication by means of sound is not always easy. Sound suffers much attenuation and degradation close to ground. Crickets have adapted to this by exploiting sharply tuned mechanical systems. A coevolution ensures that the calling song of males and the directional hearing of females are tuned to the same frequency.