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When forests fall silent: habitat loss threatens India’s only periodical cicada

For four years, it lives unseen beneath the soil, feeding on bamboo roots. Then, for a few weeks, it emerges in vast numbers, filling parts of Ri-Bhoi district with a piercing chorus locals call the sound of the Ñiangworldcup.

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