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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .If you've ever tried to flirt it up at a party or a club or maybe a construction site,
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3 .you know it can be tough making yourself heard above the din.
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4 .One solution is to go home and text your love interest.
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5 .But a more immediate one is to shout.
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6 .And that's pretty much the approach male grasshoppers take when the roar of traffic threatens to drown out their mating calls.
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7 .The results appear in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology.
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8 .Lots of animals use sound to woo a potential partner.
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9 .But what happens when an unnaturally noisy environment all but overwhelms such romantic entreaties?
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10 .To see how grasshoppers cope with vehicular clamor, researchers collected about 200 males, half from the scrub along the highway.
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11 .Then they showed the lads a female and recorded the results.
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12 .Turns out that, compared to males that lived someplace quiet,
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13 .the roadside chirpers selectively boosted the bass notes in their love song, precisely the part that would have gotten lost during rush hour.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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