Meet The Only Mouse Known To Howl At The Moon

IFL Science ^ | October 01, 2025 | Eleanor Higgs

[ansel12]

In before the Peter Sellers movie.

[Chickensoup]

Speaking of howling last night the English Shepherd was howling to the sound of sirens in the distance. First time.

[dangus]

“A very high-pitched noise in the range of 9-14 Hertz.”

Megahertz? 9-14 Hertz is too low to be audible. And I’m leaving the OJ Simpson rent-a-car joke unsaid.

[decal]

Actually, it’s the other one, “The Mouse on the Moon”:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057328/

[Jamestown1630]

Deer Mice, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzAn8fyQ418

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Megahertz? Damn those radio controlled mice!

Try Kilohertz.

[Komarlady]

That sort of sounded like a higher pitched version of humpback whale song.

[Jamestown1630]

I recall the naturalist and writer Sally Carrighar writing in one of her books many years ago that some people can actually hear the deer mouse naturally.

[mairdie]

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[dangus]

LOL, oops.

[LilFarmer]

I couldn’t hear the pitch, but my dogs just went crazy lol

[maddog55]

[tumblindice]

The Weremouse (1941)
“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night,
may become a mouse when the mousebane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.”

[NewMexLurker]

I saw a short video once of a group of these little guys howling together before racing off to hunt. It reminded me very much of a pack of wolves howling together before a hunt, announcing to all nearby prey "We're here, and we are coming for you!".

[frank ballenger]

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

(updated)

I saw the best minds of my mouse generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry cheese fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly rodent connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...

[rfp1234]

OJ Simpson’s e-mail:

slash, slash, backslash, escape.

[Bigg Red]

mark

[rightwingcrazy]

“a very high-pitched noise in the range of 9-14 Hertz”

Maybe they mean kilohertz.

[TalBlack]

If I recall it used to be that the capital H in the word Hertz indicated Mega and the lower case h indicating the lower range but I see so many people violating this use that I wonder if anyone even remembers it.