railehatesfun:

door-maker-guy:

curiosityconfusion:

How did people first figure out that it was cicadas that make this noise? I could see that taking a long time.
Were there just like a thousand years where people were like “yeah, the trees are screaming. They do that in the summer.”

They saw the cicadas, obviously. Just because you’re too dumb to hunt cicadas doesn’t mean our ancestors weren’t.

This is like asking “how can you tell it’s crickets that make that noise? Maybe it’s just the grass screaming.”

Okay, but you realise the medieval Western wold thought mice generated from clods of dirt and that barnacles were part of the wild goose life cycle??? I’m not making this shit up. Screaming trees would be the least weird thing on the roster there.