I was listening to Classical 89, when suddenly they started talking about an example of nesting: when a mother plays her baby Mozart while still in the womb. I remembered discussing this in class! Well, they switched over to talking about crickets. Apparently, a study has shown that mother crickets can warn their fetuses to be wary of spiders. For the experiment, they exposed one group of pregnant crickets to spiders, while the control group was not exposed. The offspring of the 1st group were more wary of spiders than the offspring in the control group. This is an important bit of wisdom for the mother to pass on, because crickets abandon their unborn eggs before they hatch! You can read more about it here. Enjoy!
Weird! That is very interesting information... This was on Classical 89?! Guess there isn't a lot of new stuff to talk about when the genre of music is 100s of years old :)
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