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stridulation
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stridulation [‚strij·ə′lā·shən]
(invertebrate zoology)
Creaking and other audible sounds made by certain insects, produced by rubbing various parts of the body together.


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Ants stridulate with the hindmost body section, the gaster, explains systematist Philip Ward at the University of California, Davis.
But in the honest-to-goodness, bug-eat-bug world -- where the element of surprise can make all the difference between eating or starving -- "it would be kind of maladaptive to stridulate before they pounce.
 
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