No account that I have seen of the stridulation of male insects shows that it is a challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
His feet scraped the uneven floor, and his voice, beginning with a melodic stridulation, became the voice of a child. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
Whistles of derision and rising stridulation threatened to drown him out, but this time the specialist would not be denied. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Sympathetic stridulation by those of like mind momentarily filled the room with the din of a hundred improperly tuned violas. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
After all, where else would I be able to brag about the happiness I found in finally hearing what the defensive stridulation of a dung beetle sounds like?. From Wordnik.com. [February 2005] Reference
The 'stridulation,' as this form of musical production is called, in some locusts is so loud that it can be heard on a still night for a distance of a mile. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Throughout great lengths of shore-line the tuneless stridulation of frogs, the guttural cries of water-birds and the general movement in the sedge indicated a serene content among small life. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The shrill, small voice of the sunbird is almost indistinguishable from the stridulation of one of the leaf insects, which makes its amorous noises in the evening as well as during the sunny hours. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
Although many insects do this, manakins are unique among vertebrates in using stridulation, said Bostwick. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I am particularly obliged to you for your observations on the stridulation of the two sexes of Lamellicorns. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
"Very luckily for us, there was a definite difference in the stridulation and bite patterns," Dr Harvey recalled. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
As we have seen, the nocturnal chorus of the birds is now replaced by the croaking of frogs and the stridulation of crickets. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
From the Western Union desks the clicking of the throng of instruments rose into the air in an incessant staccato stridulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Pit] Reference
The songbird (Machaeropterus deliciosus) uses these feathers for stridulation, a rubbing mechanism commonly used by insects such as crickets. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Beneath that deeper thunder of the guns, the crackling, unintermittent sound of musketry affected the ear like the stridulation of giant insects. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
So pleasing was the thought, that his wings fluttered slightly, and the room filled with the bright shirrupping sound of his particular stridulation. From Wordnik.com. [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference
Often through the woods a loud, sharp, resonant stridulation is heard, sounding like the syllables "Ta, na, na," succeeding each other with little intermission. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
The efforts of the former produce a scarcely perceptible stridulation; the palpitating throat of the latter is as ineffectual; and the desired one does not come. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
Mochokid catfishes of the genus Synodontis are commonly called squeakers because they produce broadband stridulation sounds during abduction and adduction of pectoral fin spines. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Hearing thresholds were measured between 50 Hz and 6 kHz using the auditory evoked potentials recording technique; stridulation sounds were recorded and their sound pressure levels determined. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
During the monsoon the silence of the night is broken only by the sound of falling raindrops, or the croaking of the frogs, the stridulation of crickets innumerable, and the owlet's feeble call. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
Night-hawks, cranes, curlews, and frogs might, any of them, or all, be guilty; and some kind of cricket undoubtedly produced that regular stridulation, as of a piece of ivory drawn along the teeth of a metal comb. From Wordnik.com. [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference
But in this great-armed beetle it was a nodding of necessity, a doddering of desire, the drawing of the bow across the strings in a hymn of hope which had begun in past time with the first stridulation of ancient insects. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
After recording the stag beetles' stridulation and bite patterns, the team compared it with the signals produced by other species, such as the lesser stag beetle and rose chafer beetle, which were likely to be found in similar habitats. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
Comparisons between audiograms and sound spectra revealed that the most sensitive frequencies correlate with the dominant frequencies of stridulation sounds in all S. schoutedeni size groups and that all specimens are able to detect sounds of all size groups. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The louder sound, heard at a greater distance, would attract or be heard by more females, or it may attract other males and lead to combats for the females, but this would not imply choice in the sense of rejecting a male whose stridulation was a trifle less loud than another's, which is the essence of the theory as applied by you to colour and ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]
Onhogo’s body was high increasing bigger, body battle coat be-tear to sound of stridulation by extend power. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes Man | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
"Then Nordelmatcen was striving to suppress an instinctive stridulation as he tapped his mentor on the thorax and pointed sharply. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
"His fixed compound eyes could not widen, the multiple lenses could not expand, but his antennae stood straight up and his abdominal gaster contracted, letting out an involuntary stridulation of surprise, when next he cast his gaze down into the pit. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
This cricket music is called stridulation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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