stridulation

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The act of stridulating.

The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.

The noise itself.

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Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation. Charles Darwin

Differences in the proportion of drumming versus stridulation sounds depend on morphological constraints, such as different sizes of drumming muscles and pectoral spines. Source: Internet

The males use this sound for courtship, which occurs late in the summer. citation The sound is produced by rubbing two parts of their bodies together, called stridulation. Source: Internet

Catfish are able to produce a variety of sounds for communication that can be classified into two groups: drumming sounds and stridulation sounds. Source: Internet

In some species, females are also capable of stridulation. Source: Internet

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