I’ve often joked about the deafening silence of people who’ve been caught in their lies, using “crickets” as the metaphor for the only thing to be heard. I may have to stop doing that, because here is what crickets “say” when their high-pitched chirpings are slowed down to the normal frequency range of human voices:
It sounds like a choir murmuring in wordless harmony. I wonder if this is how they sound to one another.
All animals live in a different time continuum. Nice that we have the technology now to appreciate it!