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Science 15 January 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3967, pp. 212 - 213
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3967.212
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Periodical Cicada: Sound Production and Hearing

James A. Simmons 1, Ernest Glen Wever 1, and Joseph M. Pylka 1

1 Auditory Research Laboratories, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

The two main species intermingled in a brood of the 17-year cicada (Magicicada) have distinctive sound-making patterns and correspondingly different hearing abilities. Thus, they are acoustically isolated for mating purposes. Their simultaneous emergence and community "singing" has the important advantage of repelling predators.


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