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Re: Talking to mosquitoes

Subject: Re: Talking to mosquitoes
From: "Raimund" animalsounds
Date: Sat Aug 4, 2012 3:10 am ((PDT))
> So I would say that the humidity- or temperature-factors, doesn't sound t=
hat plausible. Besides, I spend some time localizing the sound, before I st=
arted recording and speaking, and during that time I didn't hear any change=
s, though I was breathing and heating, as Ray also points out.

Hi Hans,

So, it seems that the mosquitoes really replied to your voice and they prob=
ably tried to "mate" with you by adjusting their wing beat frequencies to y=
our voice :-)

I just found this article on this topic:

http://www.livescience.com/3196-bug-love-mosquitoes-sing-duet-harmony.html

Regards,
Raimund












"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.



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