Flirt with a foul smell

Dog face bats emit melodious melodies and bad smells to find partners during the breeding season. Their love songs are quite complex and have a clear rhythm.

According to National Geographic , bats on dogs face have quite similar faces to dogs. They are one of the few animal groups that know how to use music during their search for partners to breed (along with whales and birds).

Scientists from the University of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering (USA) record the melodies that bat-faced bats emit when searching for partners. They found those ' love songs ' created by clear music. They have a clattering sound, sounds like a bird's song and whispers.

A bat face dog.(Photo: mammalwatching.com)

Males exhibit melodies when they hang themselves in a reverse or horizontal position. Sometimes they flap their wings and drip drops of stinky solutions to attract their attention.

' It was really a performance, ' Kirsten Bohn, a postdoctoral biology graduate student at the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, told National Geographic.

Usually people feel the bat's love tunes are like a mess of sounds with fast tempo, because most of the sounds they emit are too high. But when the team reduced the speed of the songs, they heard the rhythm created by certain syllables.

Bohn's group also found evidence of high levels of organization in bat songs. For example, songs always start with chattering sounds and often end in whispers. But Bohn confirmed that bats don't just copy each other's songs. Like talented musicians, they combine and change the length of the music to create love songs that are different from others.