Sound made on the backSourced
The tenrec rubs specialized quills together
Madagascar’s lowland streaked tenrec produces sound by rubbing specialized quills together. This stridulation is a sound-making method commonly associated with insects. Communication does not have to come only from the voice.
The back contains another way to generate a signal.
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