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Ig Nobel Prize for clarifying the principle of crocodile vocalization! ～A sense of fun and human connections lead to discoveries

The Ig Nobel Prize is the award presented to research that makes people laugh and then think. The 2020 Ig Nobel Acoustics Prize was won by Takeshi Nishimura, Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, for his research that revealed the principle that crocodiles, like humans, change their voices when they inhale helium gas.