Assertion: spiny lobster | /r/CapableOf | make sound
Facets:
value: by rubbing a plectrum
type: MANNER
value: mainly
type: DEGREE
value: differently than most arthropods
type: OTHER
value: interestingly
type: OTHER
value: by rubbing an antenna
type: MANNER
value: in a very different way
type: MANNER
value: by drawing a bow
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: These spiny lobsters make a “rasp” sound by rubbing a plectrum (an extension off of the base of each antenna) over a file which is located on each side of a plate below the eyes.
text: But Sheila Patek, of Duke University, has discovered that spiny lobsters produce sound in a very different way: by drawing a bow across a vibrating surface.
text: By rubbing an antenna across its face, a spiny lobster can create a sound that might, under the right underwater conditions, be detectable up to 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) away.
text: Interestingly, the spiny lobster can make this sound even after it molts and its shell is soft.
text: This means that spiny lobsters make sound differently than most arthropods, which rub a hard pick over a series of bumps to make sound (like a washboard).
text: The spiny lobster does not scuttle around with an actual tiny fiddle, but it makes sounds using a mechanism similar to pulling a soft bow across strings.
text: If a spiny lobster had to produce sound the way guitarists so often do-by plucking a hard plectrum across a series of hard ridges-the animal would be obliged to fall silent just when it would benefit most from an antipredator noisemaker: during the vulnerable few days it takes for the carapace to harden following a molt.
text: To date, the scientific literature has shown that spiny lobsters mainly produce these sounds to startle predators, such as octopuses and fish,” Youenn Jézéquel, a Marine Biology PhD candidate at the University of Western Brittany (UBO), France, told IFLScience.