The Behavioral Ecology of Insect Vibrational Communication
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The Behavioral Ecology of Insect Vibrational Communication
W our reliance on vision and hearing and our weak vibration sense, humans have only recently developed ways to mine the information provided by the soundless vibration of the surfaces around us (box 1). Nevertheless, the information is there: geophones show ongoing tremors of the earth’s surface, stethoscopes bring the rhythm of our heart and lungs to a doctor’s ears, and laser vibrometers let ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioScience
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0006-3568
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0323:tbeoiv]2.0.co;2