• Ziglin@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I doubt it would actually be a stethoscope then though. Maybe something to gather the sap or to see below the bark but a stethoscope wouldn’t help with that. (I’m not a biologist but I know that stethoscopes are used to make it easier to listen to things and likely require a proper contact which one wouldn’t get on bark.)

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        4 months ago

        You could search for insects under the bark using the stethoscope, like woodpeckers do.

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          4 months ago

          Wouldn’t the stethoscope have trouble actually bringing the sound to the ear pieces if the bark is as rough as in the image?