Scientists Discover Silent Male Crickets

SciAm plugs a new book on nonbinary sex in animals. Their best example is singing crickets.

One of my favorites is the crickets of Hawaii. So field crickets are, are well-known for their loud chirping, which is a sexual signal, and so a lot of people have studied their sexual signaling to understand how that works in a sexually reproducing species. ...

these parasites would then kill the loudest crickets. ...

We’ve known since about [the] mid-1970s that some male crickets don’t chirp, ...

So when the scientists finally started taking them a little bit more seriously, they noticed that these males engage in same-sex courtship and that they work together with chirping males to court females and that females often prefer paired males rather than solo males, for reasons that we’re still trying to understand.

This is supposed to prove that nonbinary sexual behavior is normal.