The cercal organ may provide singing tettigoniids a backup sensory system for the detection of eavesdropping bats.
Conspicuous signals, such as the calling songs of tettigoniids, are intended to attract mates but may also unintentionally attract predators. Among them bats that listen to prey-generated sounds constitute a predation pressure for many acoustically communicating insects as well as frogs. As an adapt...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-09-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
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