It started with a squeak: Moonlight serenade helps lemurs pick mates of the right species

Lonely hearts columns testify that finding a partner can be hard enough, but at least most human beings can be fairly certain that when we do we have got one of the right species. Things aren`t so simple for all animals. 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 in BioMed Central`s journal BMC Biology has shown that our desperately cute distant cousins use vocalisations to pick up a partner of the right species.

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