Bodicoteblue
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I recently spoke with an entomologist friend of mine who described an experiment he was conducting with grasshoppers.
He noticed that when he clapped his hands loudly behind a grasshopper, it would leap rapidly away from him.
In the interests of science he decided to try an experiment. He pulled the legs off the poor insect and repeated his clapping exercise. The grasshopper made no moves at all- thus providing irrefutable evidence that grasshoppers hear through their legs.
Makes you think dunnit??!?
He noticed that when he clapped his hands loudly behind a grasshopper, it would leap rapidly away from him.
In the interests of science he decided to try an experiment. He pulled the legs off the poor insect and repeated his clapping exercise. The grasshopper made no moves at all- thus providing irrefutable evidence that grasshoppers hear through their legs.
Makes you think dunnit??!?