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by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
This wonderful essay in the New York Times discusses listening to the sounds crickets make at night.
We have crickets where I live, and they can be noisy. I knew that their sounds were made by male crickets rubbing their wings together in hopes of finding a mate, but who knew that crickets have strategies to amplify their sounds?
The main reason to protect our ears is to be able to hear speech, but being able to hear nature’s wonderful sounds is another good reason.
