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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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If you've ever tried to flirt it up at a party or a club or maybe a construction site,

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you know it can be tough making yourself heard above the din.

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One solution is to go home and text your love interest.

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But a more immediate one is to shout.

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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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The results appear in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology.

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Lots of animals use sound to woo a potential partner.

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But what happens when an unnaturally noisy environment all but overwhelms such romantic entreaties?

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To see how grasshoppers cope with vehicular clamor, researchers collected about 200 males, half from the scrub along the highway.

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Then they showed the lads a female and recorded the results.

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Turns out that, compared to males that lived someplace quiet,

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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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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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