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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Wouldn’t ‘Muskrat Love’ be a more appropriate tune?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV_7a0FQs
Why is that Captain and Tennille song all of a sudden running through my head?!
Its called ‘programming’. :-)
Now you will make a generous donation to FR and then sleep it off. :-)
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. Will be running around in my head all night. ;-)
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”.
Mouth2Mouse-Recesitation saves lives!!
Gag
Oh! so those were female mice that showed up outside my shower door.
Somebody sing me a silly love song...puleeze!
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????
It’s Duke. A noose in a tree this week, a mouse trap next week. Haters.
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.
You have great taste!
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