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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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Such theories are highly speculative, but here, beneath this pictograph, the sounds of the dawn rise up from the gentle bow of the river, the narrowing of the canyon: The ebbing stridulations of the crickets, the incipient bird song and the gravelly purr of the creek.
Consider the "tappings, stridulations, strokings, graspings, nudgings, antennations, tastings and puffings and streakings of chemicals among the ants that evoke various responses from simple recognition to recruitment and alarm" as described by the foremost myrmecologists of our time Bert Holldobler and Edward O.
Ants may not pick sounds of stridulations out of the air as people do, but--in theory at least--ants may respond to airborne vibrations if scientists make the right noise.
 
 
 
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