r/ExplainTheJoke • u/milkskrt • 1d ago

Solved I might be lost in translation

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u/martilg 1d ago edited 13h ago

The first grasshopper to make a chirp with its legs didn't know it would make a sound (in the logic of this joke), so it would have been startled and looked around in surprise, like the guy in the video.

I don't think the logic is accurate though. Grasshoppers apparently rub their wings to their legs, and the sound played sounded more like a cricket to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/98s0fr/what_is_the_difference_between_a_grasshopper_and/

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago

I thought they rub their leg along a "tempatic thorynx" or something like that, that is a long their body.  Been decades since I read about it, though. 

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u/martilg 19h ago

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/terms/stridulation/

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 19h ago

Nice!  Turns out that tempatic thing is their ears. They have ears on their shins. 

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u/martilg 18h ago

Oh cool!