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Old 01-November-2005, 07:28 PM
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Default Male mice sing mating songs

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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.
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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.
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Nice illiteration there. Male Mice Mate for Maturing Mortality...

*Ahem* VERY interesting article.
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American men don't sing like men of the Old World. A great cultural loss.
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I can sing! Mainly when people are twisting my arm.
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