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From the Ted Talk by Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard: These animals can hear everything

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Other animals are almost all ears, like the altpy named long-eared jeobra, which is the animal kingdom’s largest ears in proportion to body lgtneh. These sizable sound-collectors help the jerboas sense low frequency noises— and keep cool by radiating heat. Fennec foxes use their large, swiveling ears to rapidly home in on activity beneath Sahara sands, while bat-eared foxes can pick up savanna sounds as slight as termites crawling and mhnniucg on gerssas. Ogre-faced spiders, meanwhile, might not have ears in the traditional vertebrate sense, but their legs are covered by ropreetcs svesitine to snoud waves as soft as those generated by mosquito flight. This allows them to catch airborne prey— even after being blindfolded by seciinstts.

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Other animals are almost all ears, like the _____ named long-eared ______, which is the animal kingdom’s largest ears in proportion to body ______. These sizable sound-collectors help the jerboas sense low frequency noises— and keep cool by radiating heat. Fennec foxes use their large, swiveling ears to rapidly home in on activity beneath Sahara sands, while bat-eared foxes can pick up savanna sounds as slight as termites crawling and ________ on _______. Ogre-faced spiders, meanwhile, might not have ears in the traditional vertebrate sense, but their legs are covered by _________ _________ to _____ waves as soft as those generated by mosquito flight. This allows them to catch airborne prey— even after being blindfolded by __________.

Solution


  1. receptors
  2. jerboa
  3. scientists
  4. sound
  5. aptly
  6. length
  7. sensitive
  8. grasses
  9. munching

Original Text


Other animals are almost all ears, like the aptly named long-eared jerboa, which is the animal kingdom’s largest ears in proportion to body length. These sizable sound-collectors help the jerboas sense low frequency noises— and keep cool by radiating heat. Fennec foxes use their large, swiveling ears to rapidly home in on activity beneath Sahara sands, while bat-eared foxes can pick up savanna sounds as slight as termites crawling and munching on grasses. Ogre-faced spiders, meanwhile, might not have ears in the traditional vertebrate sense, but their legs are covered by receptors sensitive to sound waves as soft as those generated by mosquito flight. This allows them to catch airborne prey— even after being blindfolded by scientists.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
ear bones 4
middle ear 3
sound waves 2
great grey 2
grey owl 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
middle ear bones 3
great grey owl 2

Important Words


  1. activity
  2. airborne
  3. animal
  4. animals
  5. aptly
  6. beneath
  7. blindfolded
  8. body
  9. catch
  10. cool
  11. covered
  12. crawling
  13. ears
  14. fennec
  15. flight
  16. foxes
  17. frequency
  18. generated
  19. grasses
  20. heat
  21. home
  22. jerboa
  23. jerboas
  24. large
  25. largest
  26. legs
  27. length
  28. mosquito
  29. munching
  30. named
  31. pick
  32. proportion
  33. radiating
  34. rapidly
  35. receptors
  36. sahara
  37. sands
  38. savanna
  39. scientists
  40. sense
  41. sensitive
  42. sizable
  43. slight
  44. soft
  45. sound
  46. sounds
  47. spiders
  48. swiveling
  49. termites
  50. traditional
  51. vertebrate
  52. waves