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To allow the grasshopper to hear. The tympanum is basically an eardrum in the side of a grashopper's body. To hear, just like us. Grasshopper and cricket males often chirp and sing to attract females, so the females need to hear quite well, and males compete with other males, so they also need the eardrums.

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