microrobert
07-24-2012, 02:24 PM
Fornicating flies attract hungry bats
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Keep it down dear, the bats might hear you (Source: Stefan Greif/MPI f. Ornithologie)
Coitus interruptus The sex sounds flies make can lead to a violent death - luring predator bats to their love nests while their defences are down, a new study reveals.
Researchers who studied a small community of flies and bats in a cowshed near Marburg, Germany, found that the insects' chances of becoming dinner were dramatically higher while copulating.
They were six times more likely to be eaten than single, sitting flies, says bat biologist and co-author Stefan Greif of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.
Fornicating flies attract hungry bats › News in Science (ABC Science) (http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3552093.htm)
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201207/r977160_10651967.jpg (http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201207/r977160_10651986.jpg)
Keep it down dear, the bats might hear you (Source: Stefan Greif/MPI f. Ornithologie)
Coitus interruptus The sex sounds flies make can lead to a violent death - luring predator bats to their love nests while their defences are down, a new study reveals.
Researchers who studied a small community of flies and bats in a cowshed near Marburg, Germany, found that the insects' chances of becoming dinner were dramatically higher while copulating.
They were six times more likely to be eaten than single, sitting flies, says bat biologist and co-author Stefan Greif of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.
Fornicating flies attract hungry bats › News in Science (ABC Science) (http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3552093.htm)