Moonlight serenade helps lemurs pick mates of the right species
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 00:42
in Biology & Nature
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...
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