Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets.

Animals, including insects, change their innate escape behavior triggered by a specific threat stimulus depending on the environmental context to survive adaptively the predators' attack. This indicates that additional inputs from sensory organs of different modalities indicating surrounding conditions could affect the neuronal circuit responsible for the escape behavior. Field crickets, , exhibit an oriented running or jumping escape in response to short air puff detected by the abdominal mechanosensory organ called cerci.