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Patterned Response to Song in Cricket Central Auditory Neurone

Nature volume 229, pages 195–196 (1971)Cite this article

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THE acoustic behaviour of many Orthopterans is familiar and well documented1. The evidence suggests that females are phonotactic to the calling song of the conspecific male2, that phonotaxis occurs with greater probability when the calling song is that of a conspecific rather than a heterospecific male3, that males as well as females exhibit phonotaxis4 and that males respond to each others' song by stridulating in turn5 and by synchronizing their chirps6.

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ZARETSKY, M. Patterned Response to Song in Cricket Central Auditory Neurone. Nature 229, 195–196 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229195b0

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