The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth, is another of my books on words in the English language; always a fascinating topic for me. On page 201 is a fascinating list of mating calls: A badger shrikes, a fox clickets, a goat rattles, a deer croons, a sow breems, a cow eassins and an otter whineth. Nothing for us humans although Forsyth does refer to these as “chat-ups”.
Perhaps we rely on pheromones boosted by perfumes and fine words.
