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Tiny crooners: Male house mice sing songs to impress the girls

Male house mice produce melodious songs to attract mates. Unfortunately for us, because the melodies are in the ultra-sonic range human ears cannot detect them. Through spectrographic analyses of the vocalizations of wild ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The Viking journey of mice and men

House mice (Mus musculus) happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology h ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

House mice put endangered petrels at risk of extinction

Common house mice are demolishing what could be the only breeding population of endangered Atlantic petrels in the world, scientists have found.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast