CATERPILLARS THAT HEAR
CURIOUS DEMONSTR'ATION A note appearing in a recent issue of Science indicates that caterpillars. hear sounds audible to human ears, according to a report read before the American Society of Zoologists hy Dr. D. E. Minnich, of the Universaty of Minnesota, who, outlingd experiments demonstrating his point. He held tuning-forks of several pitches within the range of the middle piano keyboard over a sound box in which were caterpillars of 14 different species. When he struck the forks the caterpillars indicated that they heard, either by stopping their movements or hy vigorously contrac.ting their longitudinal muscles.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 591, 24 July 1933, Page 3
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99CATERPILLARS THAT HEAR Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 591, 24 July 1933, Page 3
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