“I don’t have exact words for the joy that I felt.”Tree cricket baffling was initially described by scientists in the 1970s. Baffling males, the researchers found, tended to be more petite than their unmic’d counterparts. When warbling without a leaf, smaller males chirped at about 60 decibels — akin to noisy restaurant chatter. Baffling also seemed to increase smaller males’ chances of engaging in longer bouts of sex, giving their sperm more of an opportunity to mosey over to their mates. That might be because these crickets already have more than enough females to mate with, the researchers found through a mathematical model.

Source: bd News24 December 16, 2020 05:37 UTC