Male birds may sport flashy feathers to attract females, lionesses prefer lions with thicker manes and colorful male guppies with large spots attract the most females. But bats are active in the dark. How do they attract mates? Mariana Muñoz-Romo, a senior Latin American postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and National Geographic explorer, pioneers research to understand the role of odors in bat mating behavior.
— Read more in Is odor the secret to bats' sex appeal? at Phys.org.
A new potential market for Night Flyer?
Makes sense if you are totally blind..! I am sure the smell was a factor for me to be attracted to partners in the past.
Bats are incredible animals and so diverse. The ghost bat in the article looks so peculiar, I never knew it existed! Cross between a forest frog and bat.. Lately I’m watching videos about fruit bats (flying foxes) in Australia being rescued and rehabilitated by lovely people. I never imagined there could be bats that looked like cute dogs with wings chewing on bananas.