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The Otteo Sound Project, Music to the Ears

Academy of Natural Sciences

Many organisms use sound to communicate with others of their own species, to find a mate and to deter predators. Grasshoppers, crickets and katydids, all in the insect order Orthoptera, are among those that produce species-specific sounds, and scientists use these sounds to identify one species from another. Meet the author.