#mating calls

[justanotherdrfan]

Not me hoping and praying for Max to respond in the comments of Daniel’s new ford ambassador post to Daniel’s ki ki with ki ki aye!

[k-wame]

AARON MERCURY WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT BOTTLE !!!👀👀👀😧😯😲😮 and the direct eye contact between the two?? aldo running his fingers down his cleavage??? oh the attraction was instant & all consuming 💦💦💦

[midnightmoonbeams]

Lionel asks me about the mating calls of insects, but definitely in a more discrete way.

From October 6th, 2023

[midnightsilveradditional]

I was just getting settled for bed and I heard a Twany Owl outside my open window calling the classic ‘Twoooooo’. There was no one answering him so I whistled back the ‘two-wit’ and he called back ‘twoooo’. And we had a lovely little back and forth for a bit and his call came closer. It was too dark for me to be able to see him, but I was still all pleased with myself.

But then I felt really guilty because after I stopped he stuck around somewhere nearby for about 30 mins calling with no response. And I realised that while I had been enjoying ‘talking’ to an owl, he’s busy looking for a lady friend and I had totally lead him on and abandon him for no reason.

I mean, there’s nothing I can do about it now. I’m not a lady owl. But I definitely feel guilty about the whole thing.

# problems you never expected to have 🙄

[symbiotic-science]

Female manakins use male mating call when implanted with male hormones

Among the first things that stand out about golden-collared manakins, a bird found in Panama and western Colombia, are the acrobatics of male adults during breeding season. Males also emit a particular call, the 'chee-poo', to attract females. In a new paper published in Animal Behaviour, Smithsonian researchers Ioana Chiver and Barney Schlinger explore the role of androgens—male hormones—in the expression of this vocal behavior, by administering testosterone to females and juvenile males.

Among the first things that stand out about golden-collared manakins, a bird found in Panama and western Colombia, are the acrobatics of male adults during breeding season. Males also emit a particular call, the 'chee-poo', to attract females. In a new paper published in Animal Behaviour, Smithsonian researchers Ioana Chiver and Barney Schlinger explore the role of androgens—male hormones—in the expression of this vocal behavior, by administering testosterone to females and juvenile males.

In previous research by these scientists, testosterone implants motivated juvenile males to perform all the courtship acrobatics of male adults, while females performed some of them. Thanks to video recordings of these behaviors, she was able to extract the vocalizations made by female manakins and juvenile males that were administered testosterone. She then compared them to the vocalizations of untreated females, untreated juvenile males, as well as adult males in the wild.

When implanted with testosterone, female manakins were able to produce the male-specific 'chee-poo' vocalization, while untreated females were not. This may indicate that the neuromuscular systems associated with this mating call are present in the females or that they can be quickly developed in response to a male hormone, such as testosterone.

As for juvenile males, both the treated and untreated groups produced the 'chee-poo' vocalizations, but their acoustic features were different. The vocalizations of juvenile males receiving testosterone were closer to those of treated females than to those of untreated males or adult males in the wild. They were longer in duration, particularly the 'chee' note, and higher in frequency.

[dailykakapo]

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In the breeding season, the male kākāpō can inflate like a balloon and emit a low ‘sonic’ boom which, in mountainous terrain, can be heard up to five kilometres away. 

thanks to the new zealand kakapo recovery org for this audio, please donate to them if you love these birds!!

[otc-dramaturgy]

Tim [Burton] took a risk when he asked me to play Sweeney Todd because neither he nor I knew if I could sing when I accepted it. I went into the recording studio with a friend of mine to see if I could do it. My singing's not unlike the mating call of a rutting stag. It's a strange sound, but I haven't been fired yet.

Johnny Depp, interview with The Telegraph, May 2007

[mineralaccident]

fuckin hate them all - we don't have to live like animals.