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Sept. 5, 2007

Cicada Serenades

One sound that characterizes American summers is the cicada chorus. The insects' long, drawn out serenades can be loud and ethereal, sort of like a cross between the sounds of rustling and scraping. Half a world away, Borneo's cicadas belt out very different melodies. Although some sound fairly familiar, one available at this German site is almost characteristic of the screeching soundtrack typical of grade-B science fiction movies. It's what you might hear just as an alien is arriving on the scene. A link will transport visitors to another site with dozens of Japanese cicada tunes.

Go to: www.groms.de/data/zoology/riede/cicada.html

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