Cicada Serenades: Music, Mating, and Meaning
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Cicada Serenades: Music, Mating, and Meaning
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After 17 years underground, cicadas throughout the Northeast are emerging in time for the 2013 World Science Festival to sing, mate and die.
Amid a buzzing, whirring chorus, we examine the extraordinary mating rituals of these and other six-legged creatures to find out what their songs are saying, why they’re saying it, and how this knowledge is impacting our understanding of communication, behavior, and the ecosystem.
The conversation is punctuated by a musical performance between the bugs and their human collaborators.
