Jays prefer crickets, but crickets degrade more quickly.

松鸡喜欢蟋蟀，但蟋蟀退化得更快。

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A tarantula will sometimes kill a small animal like a snake, frog, or bird, but crickets, beetles, and other insects are more typical prey.

狼蛛有时候会猎杀一些小型动物，譬如蛇、青蛙或者小鸟，但通常列在它食谱上面的则是蟋蟀、甲虫或者其它的一些昆虫。

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Their results did indeed reinforce the established beauty standards for male crickets — "be large and be loud" — but with a twist.

他们研究的结果强化了业已建立的有关雄性蟋蟀魅力标准的论断- - -即“体格健壮并且声音洪亮”- - -但是稍有偏差。

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And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.

ECONOMIST: Saudi fiction

But it has already been shown that some smaller animals, such as frogs and crickets, pick up information from the seismic part of what everybody had assumed to be simple acoustic (ie, airborne) signals.

ECONOMIST: Extra sensory perception