You Are Smarter Than You Think You Are, Think Again.

For as long as I can remember I have always been told that I am smarter than I think I am, but for the first time, others, including myself, have been proven wrong. This observation project is not just about observing some part of nature and scribbling down what we see, but it is also about questioning nature's mysterious ways of working, asking why things happen or how things happen. Every single day my presence is surrounded by nature, and what I see is only an inch of what I think I may know, and after two weeks of observing I took it upon myself to try to reveal some of natures secrets.

The damn cricket. Where is it? I don't know. How does it look like? I don't know. What I do know is that the cricket is continuing to announce the commencement of a vivid night as it sings its symphony, but why does it sing? Is it a celebration tune? Or rather than a cheerful tune, is it a scream of fear as the dark eats away the light and is at a troubled thought of whether or not it will survive through the night's terror?  Or maybe it's just perfect timing to fill in the awkward silence of a situation? For my classmates, Wooster students, and teachers reading my blog, I ask that you take the time to think about why crickets chirps, because to your surprise, you might be quite shocked as to why crickets really chirp. (I've always thought that crickets chirp because they were asleep and it was their way of snoring, then again I use to think daddy and mommy loved to have tickle fights, boy was I wrong.)

Men are usually stereotyped as someone who only wants and cares about one thing, having sex. In some cases it may be true, in others it's not, but in the case of crickets it is a stereotype that applies accurately. Firstly, only male crickets can chirp. They chirp for four reasons only: to attract a female and scare off another male nearby, this chirp is usually very loud; a quiet song is sung  when a female is around, but no male is near; to detect any males close to the cricket, this chirp is aggressive; lastly a cricket will chirp for a very short period, sharing with the world that it has had such a successful mating with its lover. (Score for the little guy.)



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Like I've said before, what we see is only an inch of what we may think we know, and what we think we may see, is never what it seems to be.