Science news articles about 'love songs'

The love songs of free-tailed bats show a similar level of complexity as whale and bird songs.

A male bird singing a song directly to a female feels reward and pleasure.

Some mosquitoes attract mates with sophisticated love songs.

That pesky buzz of a nearby mosquito is the sound of love, scientists have known for some time. But a new Cornell study reports that males and females flap their wings and change their tune to create ...

... their pitch and slowed down their singing so that their love songs would carry better through ... the first time that anyone has shown that bird songs can shift with rapid changes in habitat, scientists ...

Female canaries adore a good old-fashioned love song that abides by rigid musical rules. Mature males always follow the rules. Curiously, young males will go against ...

As 17-year periodic cicadas scratch and buzz in 13 states, entomologists remind us that brash noise is really an insect love song.

... – or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song – not to mention birdsongs, frog thrums and mating calls of all manner of vertebrates – ...

... are courting a female. Males chase the female while vibrating their wings, producing a love song that has an aphrodisiac influence on the female, who would otherwise take action to escape the male's ...

... you could argue that country music is light, spirited, a lot of love songs." says Dr. Miller, who enjoys rock, classical, jazz and country music. He says he could have selected 10 ...

It is now generally accepted that the bowhead whale is the longest lived mammal on the planet, with a lifespan of over 200 years. But that it can sing with "more than one voice" and that it changes ...