#chirps

Chimera MagazineChimeraMag
2025-02-13

Ducks swimming in pond. Snow on foreground. Sounds of cars, birds chirping. Patos nadando en el estanque. Nieve en primer plano. Sonidos de coches, pájaros cantando. 鸭子在池塘里游泳。前景有雪。汽车的声音,鸟儿的鸣叫。

Dezene Huber 🌻dezene@ecoevo.social
2023-01-19

Turns out that day-calling #crickets (as opposed to night-calling species) tune their #chirps to avoid the same #bandwidth as other nosy #insects (like #cicadas). We know #birds do this type of thing ("#acoustic #niche partitioning"). Interesting to see it in insects.

Title: The #circadian calling activity of a lebinthine cricket with high-frequency calls is unaffected by cicada choruses in the day

Link: peerj.com/articles/14641/

Fig 2 from the linked paper. Text from the figure heading is as follows: "Calls, calling activity patterns and the frequency partitioning of crickets and cicadas in Singapore.
Calls and calling activity patterns of crickets and cicadas in Singapore. One hour spectrogram showing the transition from nocturnally singing crickets (band at ~6 kHz) to the “cicada ^” dawn chorus and the diurnally singing Purana sp. cicada and Lebinthus luae cricket (A). Insets (B–E) show short timescale spectrograms of the calls of the most common singing insects in the recording. The wav.file for this 1 h spectrogram is available as Data S1. Calling activity of L. luae around sunrise based on field data (green line) and data collected from isolated males in the laboratory (blue line) (F). The presence of negative values for the standardised number of echemes per hour is due to the standardisation so that the laboratory and field recordings were comparable. The polygons bordering the line represent the 95% confidence interval. Grey shade represents night-time; white shade represents daytime. A GAMM with gaussian error structure was fitted, with R2 = 0.53. Boxplots comparing the frequencies of the fourth harmonics of the cicada choruses and the dominant frequency of L. luae calls (G). Thick horizontal bar shows the median; lower and upper margin of the box indicate the inter-quartile range and whiskers refer to minimum and maximum data points."
2022-11-26

#chirps

Overheard in a beer league:
Player: "Hey ref, that's delay of game."
Ref: "Every time you're out here it's delay of game."

2018-03-19

Chirpss: a bookmarklet that makes your website chirp whenever anyone visits or leaves boingboing.net/2018/03/19/chir #bookmarklets #chirps #noises #Post #hits #web

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