To better hear a male’s mating call, some female frogs have noise-cancelling lungs, which resonate at frequencies that filter out the sounds of other species Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270131-some-frogs-have-noise-cancelling-lungs-to-dampen-other-species-calls/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Male lyrebirds imitate a flock of birds to scare females into mating
Birds threatened by a predator often call out to encourage other birds to make noise and fly about, repelling the attacker as part of a “mobbing flock”. Now it seems male lyrebirds imitate this sound to scare females into mating Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269303-male-lyrebirds-imitate-a-flock-of-birds-to-scare-females-into-mating/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Cannibal cockroaches nibble each other’s wings after they have mated
The wood-feeding cockroach may be the only known example of a species that practices mutual sexual cannibalism – both male and female nibble each other’s wings after mating Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2267476-cannibal-cockroaches-nibble-each-others-wings-after-they-have-mated/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Adorable dwarf giraffes spotted for the first time
Too bad they’ll have trouble mating. Source: https://www.livescience.com/dwarf-giraffes-discovered.html
World’s ugliest bats sing through ‘face masks’ made of skin to woo the ladies
Scientists recently documented never-before-seen mating behavior in wrinkle-faced bats, in which males pull a furry flap of skin over their faces. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ugly-bats-face-masks.html
November butterflies!
Lovely photos of November butterflies from an ashram garden in India. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/butterflies-ranchi-ashrama-india-photos…
Some male spiders tie up females before mating to avoid being eaten
Thanatus fabricii spiders forego courtship dances: instead, they attack females and bind them with silk before mating, perhaps because the females would otherwise eat the males Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259794-some-male-spiders-tie-up-females-before-mating-to-avoid-being-eaten/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Female banded mongooses start wars so they can mate with rival males
Female banded mongooses lead their groups into violent conflicts with rivals, mating with males in other groups in the confusion of battle Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259280-female-banded-mongooses-start-wars-so-they-can-mate-with-rival-males/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Dinosaur fossil with preserved genital orifice hints how they mated
The shape of the dinosaur’s cloaca, the orifice used for excretion and mating, resembles those of crocodiles, which suggests dinosaurs did have penises after all Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258023-dinosaur-fossil-with-preserved-genital-orifice-hints-how-they-mated/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
1st-ever footage of giant pandas mating in the wild is not ‘cute and cuddly’
Filmmakers spent three years following pandas in China’s Qinling Mountains, capturing never-before-seen footage of males competing over females. Source: https://www.livescience.com/panda-courtship-seen-first-time.html