Dolbear's Law
Ley de Dolbear
- Date
- 1897 · confidence high
- Place
- Medford, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Amos Dolbear
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Empirical law relating air temperature to the rate of cricket chirping, formulated by physicist Amos Dolbear in an 1897 article titled 'The Cricket as a Thermometer'.
What it led to
- Popularization of simple formulas for estimating temperature by counting cricket chirps
- Classic example of a quantitative relationship between animal behavior and environmental variables
- Teaching use in natural science education
- Later studies on insect bioacoustics and temperature