Male Mouse Starts to Call (IMAGE)

Duke University

Male Mouse Starts to Call

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After smelling the urine of a female mouse, a male mouse starts to call to her using a complex string of utterances (depicted in the sonogram which shows frequency of sound over time). Researchers think that such songs give way to simpler tunes after the male is in the physical presence of the female.

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Credit - Jonathan Chabout, Duke University

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