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  2. Cricket (insect) - Wikipedia

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    The burrow acts as a resonator, amplifying the sound. Most male crickets make a loud chirping sound by stridulation (scraping two specially textured body parts together). The stridulatory organ is located on the tegmen, or fore wing, which is leathery in texture. A large vein runs along the centre of each tegmen, with comb-like serrations on ...

  3. Dolbear's law - Wikipedia

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    The tree cricket Oecanthus fultoni. Dolbear's law states the relationship between the air temperature and the rate at which crickets chirp. [1] [2] It was formulated by physicist Amos Dolbear and published in 1897 in an article called "The Cricket as a Thermometer". [3]

  4. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Tiger growl Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound. Camel: grunt Capybara: squeak, [8] chatter, bark Cat: mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, caterwaul, growl Cat meow Domestic cat purring: Cattle: moo, low Chicken: cluck, buck, crow [9] cha-caw, bah-gawk (female) [10] cock-a-doodle-doo (male) Rooster crowing: Chinchilla: squeak [11] Cicada: chirp ...

  5. Cricket (warning sound) - Wikipedia

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    A cricket is a type of cockpit audio alert onboard commercial aircraft such as those of Airbus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its sound is intentionally designed to be extremely difficult for pilots to ignore. The "chirp chirp" sound is named after the insect that it imitates.

  6. Wikipedia : Featured sound candidates/Field cricket

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    A few weeks ago I was looking for the sound of crickets, and was surprised to find no freely licensed cricket sounds on enwiki or on commons. I found some on the internet, but they did not have compatible licenses. Frustration! Then a couple nights ago I heard a cricket in my garage, so like a good Wikipedian I recorded and uploaded it.

  7. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  8. Gryllotalpa major - Wikipedia

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    Gryllotalpa major,also known as the prairie mole cricket, is endemic to the United States and is the largest cricket in North America. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland and it belongs to the family Gryllotalpidae. It is threatened by habitat loss, and is currently only found in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Arkansas.

  9. File:Tree cricket chirping.ogv - Wikipedia

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