It Started With A Squeak: Moonlight Serenade Helps Lemurs Pick Mates Of The Right Species
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 15:14
in Biology & Nature
Some Malagasy mouse lemurs are so similar that picking a mate of the right species, especially at night time in a tropical forest, might seem like a matter of pot luck. However, new research has shown that our desperately cute distant cousins use vocalizations to pick up a partner of the right species.