TIL: Cicadas Can Damage Your Hearing

TIL: Cicadas Can Damage Your Hearing | Today I Learned

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Imagine you spent your entire childhood, teenage years, and young adulthood stuck inside a small closet. One day, after much of your life has passed you by, you realize that you can just open up the door, change into some more appropriate clothes, and hit the town! Free at last, what would you do first? Maybe sing a bit? Go on a few dates? By the way, you have two to four weeks to live. Yikes.
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This is not unlike the situation most cicadas face, as they spend almost their entire lives underground. For example, many of the cicadas emerging in 2016 have been underground for 17 years! To put that in perspective, the last Star Wars movie these insects saw was literally a menace. Imagine waking up in a world without Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray! Come to think of it, things are really looking up since 1999.
A cicada’s ear-piercing call is intended to attract a gal pal. Considering that these little creatures’ time above ground is so fleeting, they need to lock down a date as soon as possible. This could be why most cicadas are louder than the average fraternity pledge. Adult males are the ones making such a racket, and some species can register sounds louder 100 decibels when calling for a potential mate. In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur explains how cicadas sing such a loud song.
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@That_One_Fae 7 жыл бұрын

I love cicadas like, who doesn't want to scream out of their ass.

@m0ldyclown Жыл бұрын

Best comment

@quboux 8 жыл бұрын

I was wearing headphones.... big mistake

@engitect 6 жыл бұрын

can you still hear?

@Kizer5Red 8 жыл бұрын

But I like Cicadas' and their cute buzzing call

@CCPvirus141 8 жыл бұрын

They can be made into great alarm clocks.

@cameoong 8 жыл бұрын

+Noob meh... they can't be paused

@minemasterteam1149 8 жыл бұрын

Actually you can also pause them by smashing they like an alarm clock. It's just they are 1 time use only.

@MikhaelAhava 8 жыл бұрын

+Minemaster team1 great

@beeosiaspath4156 4 жыл бұрын

Minemaster team1 population control, too. I’m sure there’s many more.

@activetruman5613 8 жыл бұрын

Now I can explain my hearing loss to my doctor. Where I live, I hear 20 at a time.

@gilbeau5254 8 жыл бұрын

I helped one that just hatched get on it's feet so it could live. I never knew all that higher pitched noise in the trees among the other cicadas could be him looking for a lady cicada to get with. I didn't know he would be a horn dog after he came out. I thought he was a baby.

@Kuhtlass 8 жыл бұрын

Can't be true. I've been around these my whole life and I can hear perfectly fine.

@lifewithnature3907 2 жыл бұрын

I know right?

@sophiab6486 7 жыл бұрын

In north-eastern ohio, in the stow-aurora-twinsburg area, especially up at tinker's creek they were so damn loud i couldn't hear my sister shouting to me lol it was like being at a rock concert in the woods. they were on every damn leaf surrounding us.

@A_Bowl_Cut 8 жыл бұрын

what if there's cicada metal?

@Blacksoul444 4 жыл бұрын

Let this be a real thing plz

@bobjacobson858 3 жыл бұрын

I believe these cicadas were recorded either in Japan or Korea. The call at 0:30-0:35 is the species Hyalessa maculaticollis.

@iamSketchH 6 жыл бұрын

love cicadas. Love their song. In a society where car radios vibrate your classroom windows when they pass and where people are glued to headphones, I'm not worried about the tranquil sound of cicadas. (lol, all these comments on here thinking the sound of a cicada is what hurts your ears and asking why they put the sound in a video. He said how LOUD they can be CAN damage your eardrums, not the sound itself, and not always. It just has the ability to--probably more so if you're really close to one. If you have your volume turned up that loud, that's your own fault...)

@samycostin8953 8 жыл бұрын

Well this is a great torture idea👍

@mastersasori01 8 жыл бұрын

The music they reproduce is called the Cicadian Rhythm.

@asd-po5ev 8 жыл бұрын

how could? i mean, i grew up hearing this creature every single day sorry for my bad english

@alfredoponce2945 8 жыл бұрын

Same here they don't and can't hurt your ears

@leonelc29 8 жыл бұрын

+Andika Suryadarma "Some harmful even to the human ear" Some.

@jr.jorgesandoval9427 8 жыл бұрын

You live in a tropical area that's why.

@cameoong 8 жыл бұрын

+Andika Suryadarma you are live in tropical right? same here. i hear that insect every day too

@rich1051414 6 жыл бұрын

During swarms, which comes in cycles, they most certainly can. We had a swarm here in tennessee a few years back, and I have had tinnitus ever since. Perhaps some species are worse than others. That year the sound was so loud and deafening, people couldn't handle being outside at all. The rest of the time, the sound isn't bad, and is just the sound of summer :)

@michaeltoastman 8 жыл бұрын

I once saw one emerging from its cocoon on a camping trip.

@ShallExplore 6 жыл бұрын

Oh noo!! I hear them in the wild nature areas of Hong Kong

@alfredoponce2945 8 жыл бұрын

They can't hear your hearing I live in El Salvador and we have those and I grow up with this and in my country is call Chicharras . We used have then as per and hear those noise.

@The88trainwreck 8 жыл бұрын

Ha! This is going to hit the Northeast harder than Tom Brady's suspension!!! XD

@ronmcphanny2299 8 жыл бұрын

Awsum

@joevargas8430 4 жыл бұрын

I have seen a insect that is not a cicada but sounds like it, does anybody know what it is?

@eladgolan1 8 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it is possible to imitate the cicadas sound generation mechanism to produce high quality speakers?

@valerielopez7485 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know much about speakers, but that sounds like it could perhaps have a shot at working. I have a cicada resting on my wrist as I type, haha. Sharp feets.

@katherinebaker8088 4 жыл бұрын

me: *Laughs in Hard of Hearing*

@LymarkW 8 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: Not only you learnt about how Cicadas could damage your hearing, your hearing have already been damaged just by watching this video!

@Dan_711 8 жыл бұрын

Anything on KZfaq that is loud can damage your ears...

@gunch5492 7 жыл бұрын

Minemaster team1 what about headphones

@AshleighLeighanne 7 жыл бұрын

Lymark Wong But what about that sonic/Mario fan kid? YOU SONIC FRICKS

@zanagi 6 жыл бұрын

yeah! thanks nat geo

@fkjere 8 жыл бұрын

what song is playing in the background???

@thrakerzad5874 8 жыл бұрын

as annoying as they are, they give me a lot of nostalgia.

@TrizoParzo 8 жыл бұрын

My ears started to ache from this

@kriwient 8 жыл бұрын

same here

@cameoong 8 жыл бұрын

+TrizoParzo14 100 just go to the tropical island and you will hear they eveyday

@TrizoParzo 8 жыл бұрын

+Nisa Lestari Ok

@JorgeGonzalez-fw5mf 8 жыл бұрын

we call them chicharas they make so much noise that they are so easy to cach! i just go play with them when i was younger!

@tonyalarcon981 7 жыл бұрын

I'm more than sure cell from DBZ is based on a cicada

@21stEidein 7 жыл бұрын

Tony Alarcon I think he was a hybrid of different insects

@RVrahimi 4 жыл бұрын

There is around 5-10 cicadas around my house screaming non stop for the whole summer, my struggle is real...my deafness is real too 😫

@cameoong 8 жыл бұрын

in Indonesia we called it "tongeret"

@booshyn_ 7 жыл бұрын

I hear these in japan sometimes. its annoying. Think they make those in the summer im not sure but i will hear them again ;-;

@Coltranized 5 жыл бұрын

So, I know its a placebo effect but my ears insides started to hurt even before I clicked the video. The pain stopped after viewing the video with the volume low.

@thenayaah4114 8 жыл бұрын

i always wondered whether cicadas live in the ground for 17 years or they stay in their eggs like seeds.

@MisterHeroman 8 жыл бұрын

+fee They live underground in their larval form (which you see the remains of on trees).

@Eepiest_gonk 8 жыл бұрын

Ouch, my ears

@randomcat1962 4 жыл бұрын

Idk if it's good or bad that I don't have them where I live

@beeosiaspath4156 4 жыл бұрын

Disgusting. I am revolted by these demons.

@morphiskyo 6 жыл бұрын

cicadas Trap step woah

@TravisHeinze 8 жыл бұрын

They live on Okinawa and compete against the fighter jets for noise.

@sushi6823 6 жыл бұрын

what if cicada sounds are used in a remix?

@qxwt 2 жыл бұрын

its considered music for me

@ZennExile 8 жыл бұрын

They can't damage shit if you eat them.

@noaccount4 8 жыл бұрын

DROP THE BUGBASS

@deadalusdx5637 8 жыл бұрын

3301

@heyhoe5912 8 жыл бұрын

@sorryguys.4021 8 жыл бұрын

cicadas are annoying af.. thats why i hate las vegas, THOUSANDS OF CICADAS IN SUMMER also, wtf stop playing this stuff ur gonna make all of our ears hurt!

@user-yw3go8sk5r Жыл бұрын

彼らは木から出る糖分を感知していると考えられます。　糖分は若葉と共に出る。春に成ると急増した糖分を味わい１年がたっのが分かる。セミは糖分から季節を数える。樹液の出る周期を数えている。。

@mackf3930 8 жыл бұрын

cicada call can damage eardrums, puts cicada call on video.

@littlelock 8 жыл бұрын

next time I'm looking for love I'll shout really loud

@juliannel3264 8 жыл бұрын

if i ever saw one of them I would move i fucking hate bugs

@weedconnoiseur 8 жыл бұрын

Cicadas can do WHAT?!

@Robbievigil 8 жыл бұрын

sadly I haven't heard a cicada since I was a kid.

@christianjoel779 8 жыл бұрын

i haven't heard from your mom since yesterday

@Robbievigil 8 жыл бұрын

+christian joel hah, good one. call her at work I guess.

@cameoong 8 жыл бұрын

+Robbie Vigil i heard it every day

@BugBassShigu 8 жыл бұрын

Japanese cicada But You see.

@radiophodity 2 жыл бұрын

0:29 | 0:40

@BlueNinjakoopa553 8 жыл бұрын

Very good video, it will also teach people that it's pronounced "SIH-KAY-DUH" not "KICK-AWDUH".

@ennmacgee9129 8 жыл бұрын

Actually it's pronounced Sih- car-da. I love the sound of them. Used to collect them when we were kids, compare the varieties we got.

@IndigoXYZ18 8 жыл бұрын

Look up Cicada 3301.

@jaredwilliams7731 8 жыл бұрын

they can damage your eardrums * continues to play an audio recording in this video * Thx bud.....

@iamSketchH 6 жыл бұрын

No--not the SOUND itself. They said how LOUD it can be. If you have your volume up that loud, then oh well.

@amelievanneste4112 4 жыл бұрын

Well now there coming out of the ground like Who else is watching this in 2020

@AndyZULUL 8 жыл бұрын

I am deaf omg wtfffff

@Mkhalo3 6 жыл бұрын

I hate these things, so annoying

@naegleriafowleri76 7 жыл бұрын

cell from dbz?

@notxeroshi 8 жыл бұрын

Dammit cicadas! no one will love you for your mating call!

@tekksavvy2242 8 жыл бұрын

@DeadTreeDropOff 8 жыл бұрын

we roast them and eat them

@MyNguyen-uo6fy 8 жыл бұрын

How come?

@TheLittleAzn 8 жыл бұрын

Even if this title is true, it's stupid. Who puts a singing cicada right next to their ears to listen. Such a bad rep for the existence of cicadas...

@SouthBayLA1310 8 жыл бұрын

What if they fly next to your ear, ever thought about that?

@TheLittleAzn 8 жыл бұрын

Ok, back when I was a kid, I was stupid enough to try what you've said and this is what happened. 1. Cicadas are very senitive insects. They will not sing if they find themselves insecure (unless its a warning cry) especially if it's touched in anyway. 2. I've seen one sing from afar, but it's actually beautiful to watch.

@alguan8088 8 жыл бұрын

Insects that need to go instinct list:Wasp, Cicada, Mosquito.

@eric1998420 8 жыл бұрын

lol you an absolute fucktard, the human race needs to die, without any of those you listed, this world would fall apart.

@HillyRockyRoads 8 жыл бұрын

Add ticks to that list.

@eric1998420 8 жыл бұрын

+Minemaster team1 lol stupid fucks huuuu. people are stupid and hopefully we go extinct.

@projectgreengamer 8 жыл бұрын

+eric1998420 Actually,Mosquitos and wasp arent very important in many ecosystems,and are usually invasive to most species,and Mosquitos cause large death proporsions world wide. Wasp,are pretty much the A-holes of the earth,they barely pollinate and usually attack other important predators

@eric1998420 8 жыл бұрын

+projectgreengamer go outside more dumbfuck, mosquitos are so important, fish in creeks depend on hatches