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Stridulation
Stridulation meaning
A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
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After the larvae hatch, both parents feed them, continuously emitting acoustic signals in the form of stridulation: The beetles create a chirping sound by rubbing the edges of their hardened wing cases against ridges on their abdomens.
Catfish are able to produce a variety of sounds for communication that can be classified into two groups: drumming sounds and stridulation sounds.
Differences in the proportion of drumming versus stridulation sounds depend on morphological constraints, such as different sizes of drumming muscles and pectoral spines.
In some species, females are also capable of stridulation.
The males use this sound for courtship, which occurs late in the summer. citation The sound is produced by rubbing two parts of their bodies together, called stridulation.