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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. Seahorse clicks could come from a stridulation, an underwater version of a cricket's sound, the researchers suggest. Entomologists argue about whether this pattern means stridulation evolved several times in ants or whether the Adam and Eve of ant ancestors rasped to each other but some descendants lost the ability. |
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