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FE5.1 - Spiders Song (Part 1)

Future Ecologies

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The Sound of Birds of Paradise

The clicking is not actually being done by the first legs, even though it looks like it might be. The way that his abdomen is making that noise is a combination of stridulation and flicks. And so that he's basically making his feet pulse up and down against the substrate. These displays are better thought of as not as acoustic, but seismic.

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