I think from time immemorial, Man has been inventing ways on how to win over a woman for himself.  Some say that women just wait to be conquered  fully and positively  but only  in their heart, and won’t give you a hint that they are  so love hungry. Some women species, though they may have  truly  identified their lover boys,  would put up their price and make the potential suitors  run around her.

Ask any college going young men and they would tell you  dozens of tricks how to hook a girl.  New tactics are invented every day by them.  Scientists too have entered the fray and come out with some novel  approaches.  One scientist says, after he had interviewed some  2000 women over a period of 2 years,  “If you cut a joke on yourself, the woman sitting opposite would get highly tickled and would  surrender to you whole sale..”  I don’t know how many have tried this method on their prospective girl friends. There has been no follow up reports on this technology.

So much about Men and Women.  Do animals also woo the female species and gain acceptance as a partner?  They don’t have a Boy friend and Girl friend system.  They copulate straightway and some brands establish a family  immediately, lions for example. Many animals don’t have any permanent relationship but the purpose is purely reproduction especially when the female comes in season.

What method do the animals follow?  Surely they don’t  adopt  the eye-winking communication technique. We do see on the “animal planet” T.V channel some of their antics like, nose rubbing,  smelling, pulling and pushing with their horns, some males running round a female and so on.  The channel needs to capture more such scenes concerning match-making.

This morning’s paper contains a write up  on the methodology adopted by mice in this regard.

“Male mice woo females with ballads” goes the  headline. The scientist  who had studied their habit is, one  Kirsten Musolf of  USA.  He has revealed that  rats  could hear high frequency sound. Human beings could hear an audio signal only  up to  12 Khz or so; dogs up to 25  Khz and it appears that  Mice too  are ultrasonic savvies with ability  to decode audio sound around 25 khz. The male fellows  would sing at this frequency  varieties of songs and the female if she likes the song would   straightway fall for him.

Does singing come naturally to every  male mouse or will he have to take some training?

I wonder if there are any   Music schools for them? Well, taking a parallel of the human beings, all males could sing;  some may produce awful noise and some delightful tunes. Same holds good for mice, I  should think  If a particular melody is acceptable for a female, it has found a partner instantly for mating obviously. Rats don’t live as families.  Each is on his/her own except at the time of sexual urge. She won’t mate with any male but only a chap who  captures her  by his  sonorous  lyric.

Won’t it be wonderful if some audio engineers  could record a male mouse’s song, reduce it to audible frequency for our benefit and play it over a musical system?  Some scientist may kindly take on this project.

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