The Loudest Penis Of The World !!!

Singing penis wins insect the loudest animal title

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The lesser water boatman (Micronecta scholtzi) has quite a claim to fame - researchers say his 'singing penis' makes him the loudest animal in the world, relative to its size.

Reaching 99.2 decibels, that's the sound is equivalent to listening to an orchestra play loudly while sitting in the front row. And not too shabby for a 2mm insect.

Many of the other loudest animals on Earth are also the biggest, with blue whale songs reaching 188 dB and an elephant's rumbling calls measuring 117 dB.

But the two-milimetre insect produces his noise by rubbing its penis against its abdomen in a process called stridulation… don't try this at home.

nd in these lesser water boatmen the area used for stridulation is only about 50 micrometres across -- roughly the width of a human hair

Lead researcher Dr James Windmill, from the University of Strathclyde, said: "Even though 99% of sound is lost when transferring from water to air, the song is so loud that a person walking along the bank can actually hear these tiny creatures singing from the bottom of the river.

“We were very surprised. We first thought that the sound was coming from larger aquatic species such as a Sigara species [of] lesser water boatmen. When we identified without any doubt the sound source, we spent a lot of time making absolutely sure that our recordings of the sounds were calibrated correctly.

"If you scale the sound level they produce against their body size, Micronecta scholtzi are without doubt the loudest animals on Earth."

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