Phonotaxis of female crickets (Regen)
Fonotaxis de las hembras de grillo (Regen)
- Date
- 1913 · confidence medium
- Place
- Vienna, Austria
- Credited to
- Ivan Regen
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
He demonstrated experimentally that the female cricket orients towards the male's song, even when transmitted by telephone. It is one of the first studies of acoustic communication in insects.
The telephone experiment is the most repeated anecdote of Regen's work; he was a Slovene naturalist who worked in Vienna. The exact publication date and priority over earlier observations should be checked.
What it led to
- insect bioacoustics
- studies of mating behaviour and sexual selection