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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Bats Use "Love Songs," Foul Smells to Woo Mates


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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.

Photograph courtesy Japan Travel Bureau, Photolibrary