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Rodent romance: male mice use 'love songs' to woo their women
Yahoo News ^
| 4/3/15
| Will Dunham - Reuters
Posted on 04/03/2015 5:10:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know," Paul McCartney sings in his 1976 song "Silly Love Songs." Mice might agree.
It turns out male mice actually use ultrasonic "love songs" to woo females, using different tunes when they smell but do not see a female and when they lay eyes on their potential lady love, scientists said on Wednesday.
"I do think there is more going on with animal communication than we humans have been attuned to," Duke University neurobiology professor Erich Jarvis said. "There is a clear communication signal in the mouse songs and not just random sequences of vocalizations."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: lovesongs; male; mice; rodent; romance; women
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Baaaa - Byyyy .. Can't ya hear my heart beat? eeek eeKKKK
Walt Disney approves of this post.. Mickey too!
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/03/2015 5:14:13 PM PDT
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PAR35
To: NormsRevenge
Why is that Captain and Tennille song all of a sudden running through my head?!
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posted on
04/03/2015 5:14:42 PM PDT
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AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: AlaskaErik
Its called ‘programming’. :-)
Now you will make a generous donation to FR and then sleep it off. :-)
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posted on
04/03/2015 5:16:44 PM PDT
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NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/03/2015 5:16:58 PM PDT
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COBOL2Java
("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
To: NormsRevenge
thought with all this homosexual pushing and the way the media is being drama queens then I thought this article would have been about two male mice singing to each other.
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04/03/2015 5:17:17 PM PDT
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manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/03/2015 5:19:59 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
To: AlaskaErik
Exactly. Will be running around in my head all night. ;-)
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04/03/2015 5:22:47 PM PDT
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doc1019
(Blue lives matter)
To: NormsRevenge
In George Miller’s movie “Babe”, about a pig that wants to be a sheepdog, there is a little throwaway scene of mice singing “Are You Lonesome Tonight”.
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04/03/2015 5:24:27 PM PDT
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Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: NormsRevenge
Mouth2Mouse-Recesitation saves lives!!
To: PAR35
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04/03/2015 5:25:44 PM PDT
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Mercat
To: NormsRevenge
Oh! so those were female mice that showed up outside my shower door.
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04/03/2015 5:32:25 PM PDT
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04/03/2015 5:36:20 PM PDT
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doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/03/2015 5:38:04 PM PDT
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CodeToad
(Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: NormsRevenge
Somebody sing me a silly love song...puleeze!
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04/03/2015 5:38:06 PM PDT
by
krunkygirl
(force multiplier in effect...)
To: manc
thought with all this homosexual pushing and the way the media is being drama queens then I thought this article would have been about two male mice singing to each other.
EXACTLY!!!!
This article is “binary” and “hetero normative” in its analysis of this issue.
What about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered mice? Why are they being discriminated against???? Why aren’t they getting equal time in this study????
To: Dilbert San Diego
It’s Duke. A noose in a tree this week, a mouse trap next week. Haters.
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04/03/2015 5:50:39 PM PDT
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gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: AlaskaErik
Why is that Captain and Tennille song all of a sudden running through my head?!
I never particularly cared for Muskrat Love. It is a cute song I must admit.
My style is more tuned to Muskrat Ramble by a good Jazz Band.
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04/03/2015 6:04:14 PM PDT
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Fiddlstix
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04/03/2015 6:17:38 PM PDT
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Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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