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Bats Use "Love Songs," Foul Smells to Woo Mates
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| August 28, 2009
| Ker Than
Posted on 08/31/2009 9:36:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono
In the musical city of Austin, Texas, a group of smelly, pug-faced crooners is hoping to woo some females with surprisingly complex tunes.
That's the finding of a new study of Brazilian free-tailed bats, which now join songbirds and whales as some of the only animals known to use a kind of musical language during courtship.
Also known as the Mexican free-tailed bat, the species is quite numerous in Austin and around the Texas A&M University football stadium in College Park.
Based on recordings of the animals from both locations, the researchers found that the bats' songs contain definite phrases made up of birdlike chirps, buzzes, and trills.
Males sing their ballads as they hang upside down or sideways, sometimes flapping their wings and dripping a foul-smelling liquid that further attracts females.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bats; texas
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Brazilian free-tailed bats—like the one seen above in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park—now join songbirds and whales as some of the only animals known to use a kind of musical language during courtship, an August 2009 study reports.
To: JoeProBono
Bats Use “Love Songs,” Foul Smells to Woo Mates
I knew they were flying RATS, but who knew they were liberals?
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posted on
08/31/2009 9:41:47 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it." - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL)
To: JoeProBono
“Bats Use “Love Songs,” Foul Smells to Woo Mates”
Well, it worked for Cher...
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posted on
08/31/2009 9:48:11 AM PDT
by
kidd
(Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
To: JoeProBono
No wonder I only attract hairy women with big ears and webbed fingers when I do my farting version of "You've Lost that Loving Feeling".
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posted on
08/31/2009 9:50:27 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
In the musical city of Austin, Texas, a group of smelly, pug-faced crooners is hoping to woo some females with surprisingly complex tunes...
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posted on
08/31/2009 9:53:56 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
To: tx_eggman; KarlInOhio
No wonder I only attract hairy women with big ears and webbed fingers when I do my farting version of "You've Lost that Loving Feeling".
eggman, I'm only surprised that this is not YOUR post! Karl owes me a new monitor and keyboard.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:02:43 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:14:33 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:19:11 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Great LP. “Sister” is probably even better.
To: KarlInOhio
Have you performed it for Bawney Fwank yet?
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posted on
08/31/2009 11:20:55 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it." - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL)
To: JoeProBono
I sing and I stink, how come I don’t get the babes?
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posted on
08/31/2009 11:22:11 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
To: Pistolshot
To: JoeProBono; martin_fierro; dighton; Larry Lucido; cyborg; Constitution Day; Lazamataz; ...
Listen...you smell that?
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posted on
08/31/2009 11:23:41 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: Pistolshot
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posted on
08/31/2009 11:28:03 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Petronski
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posted on
08/31/2009 11:32:07 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
“I guano be loved by you, just you and nobody else but you....”
To: green pastures
As performed by The Aquabats!
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posted on
08/31/2009 12:28:16 PM PDT
by
Sparko
(Obama & czars: castrating Congress, perverting the Constitution, and emptying our wallets)
To: green pastures
BWAHAHAHA!!
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posted on
08/31/2009 12:28:47 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
08/31/2009 1:19:30 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: Daffynition
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08/31/2009 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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