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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Alligators Sing to Set Up Singles Clubs? (With Video)


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Chinese alligators "sing" together at the semiwild Anhui Research Center for Chinese Alligator Reproduction in the city of Xuancheng (map). An October 2009 study suggests alligators' choruses may be intended to call potential mates together in to "dating" groups.

Photograph courtesy Xianyan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences