Use of a self-made sound baffle by a tree cricket

@article{PROZESKYSCHULZE1975UseOA,  title={Use of a self-made sound baffle by a tree cricket},  author={L. PROZESKY-SCHULZE and O. P. M. Prozesky and Frank J. Anderson and G. J. J. VAN DER MERWE},  journal={Nature},  year={1975},  volume={255},  pages={142-143},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4188926}}
It is reported that Oecanthus burmeisteri uses a leaf as a sound baffle to increase the intensity of its calling song by pressing its tegmina against the edges of a pear-shaped hole gnawed into the leaf.

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