Swift
2005-Nov-01, 08:28 PM
Scientists have known for decades that female lab mice or their pheromones cause male lab mice to make ultrasonic vocalizations. But a new paper from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis establishes for the first time that the utterances of the male mice are songs.
Washington University link (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6040.html)
There is a link to the actual songs, transposed into the range of human hearing, on the website. They do sound a lot like bird songs.
Washington University link (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6040.html)
There is a link to the actual songs, transposed into the range of human hearing, on the website. They do sound a lot like bird songs.