A mouse’s song November 1, 2005
A team of scientists has discovered that mice can sing, BBC News said in a report. Male mice, in fact, “serenade potential mates with ultrasonic love songs”. The US scientists discovered the male mice’s ability while determining how they respond “to sex pheromones released in the urine of female mice.”
Instead of making the ultrasonic chirps randomly, the mice used several different types of syllables arranged in regular, repeated time signatures resembling birdsong.
Mice now belong to an “exclusive club of mammals that can sing”, which count among its members human beings, bats, and cetaceans.
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