Uhhhh, weird: those creepy bird-reptile beasts that live in your attic and scare the sh*t out of you might actually have more in common with you than you could imagine… In a new study, researchers have found that male BATS often give oral sex to their partners, often in the morning, and they probably do it to keep the sex going longer! SOUND FAMILIAR?

“Apart from humans, bats also exhibit oral sex as a courtship behavior,” said Ganapathy Marimuthu, a bat researcher at Madurai Kamaraj University in India (say that five times fast).

Via NBC News:

Initially, males groomed their penises to go erect before approaching females. When they gently touched females with their wings, females typically moved away, and males followed.
When the females stopped moving, the males started licking the females’ vaginas — the act known as cunnilingus. This foreplay may help arouse and lubricate females, the researchers said.
Each case of cunnilingus typically lasted about 50 seconds. The males then mounted the females for 10 to 20 seconds, and then went back to cunnilingus for 94 to 188 seconds.
The researchers found that the longer the stints of cunnilingus before mating, the more copulation was prolonged.”

Crazy stuff, huh? Apparently we aren’t the only creatures in the animal kingdom that like a little mouth action sometimes! (Although we’re not so keen on the other reason bats go down on their booty calls: to clean out the sperm of previous partners. Yuck.)