![]() ![]() It's coming from male woodland cicadas, sending out their mating calls with "a cacophony of mechanical-sounding clicks." These little insects climb high into the trees, so that they're often heard but rarely seen. So-that clicking sound? On page 187, it's all explained. ![]() The book, lovingly assembled and packed with easily digestible information and more than 125 photos, drawings, diagrams, and maps, is full of "aha!" moments. That campus conundrum and many others are demystified in a new edition of The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, released this month. Lunchtime walkers heading out into the redwood forests on campus may have noticed a strange thing over the past few weeks-a deafening sound, a buzzing, clicking, whirring clamor coming from high in the treetops, but with no discernible source. ![]()
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