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Hyraxes Upgrade Their Songs When Their Audience is Attentive

Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.If you’re going to take the trouble to sing a song about how great you are, you probably want to make sure others are listening. It seems this is what male rock hyraxes do: they try harder to give a better performance when they have attentive listeners.Read my latest Zoologic post: Hyraxes Sing Better for Attentive Audiences.