Fireflies at night in Thailand (VIDEO)
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The study grew out of Amichay’s project to understand how synchrony arises in nature. Along with some lab mates, Amichay visited Thailand to collect footage of firefly swarms, blinking together in the countryside. As he gazed at the fireflies for hours, Amichay could not help but notice an uncanny coincidence.
“At some point, I thought that the flashing of the fireflies and the chirping of the nearby crickets were in sync with each other,” Amichay said. “My colleagues noticed it too, and we thought that it was crazy that these two unrelated species would interact in such a way.”
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Guy Amichay/Daniel Abrams/Northwestern University
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