2006-11-30 15:43:11 · 6 answers · asked by Riccardo 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
This is the quote I found first.
"More surprising still is his report that a German researcher, C. Merker, writing in the 1940's, astounded fellow scientists by asserting that earthworms have voices, and can actually sing, their faint sound being "rarely in a solo number, but generally in series marked by a definity and changing rhythm." Dr. Merker claimed to be able to hear the sounds when within twelve feet of the worms, sounds produced not by chance but by the deliberate opening and closing of the earthworms' mouths.
How this could be, when earthworms have no lungs - breathing through the whole surface of their skin, moistened to dissolve oxygen, which is pumped through the bloodstream by five sets of double hearts in rings or segments close to the head - is all the more amazing."
I don't know how you can measure earthworms' volume, and I don't know if any of them would show up to a choir audition, but maybe you can find a biologist to help you out.
2006-11-30 15:55:35 · answer #1 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes ,recently I heard a group of earth worms christmas caroling rudolph the red nose reindeer all night long ! they just wouldn't shut up I guess they were drunk!!! at least they have the christmas spirit!
2006-11-30 23:55:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would be interesting!
I have heard of mice and rats singing like songbirds, but I have yet to hear of worm-song.
2006-11-30 23:49:02 · answer #3 · answered by Redcap the Druid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe so..but the only proof that i have is willy the singing worm which i lost in the compost a week ago ill let you know when i find him and ill send him over...
2006-12-02 20:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by brenthba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but they do have their own language
2006-12-04 19:46:51 · answer #5 · answered by calilove143 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they can
2006-12-01 00:42:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋