Male mice sing ultrasonic 'love ballads' as a means of trying to court females.
Who says chivalry is dead? Wale mice make females swoon with their ultrasonic love songs a new study suggests. However, even in the mouse world, the music industry is competitive. Scientists are not certain what makes a “hit love song” in the mice world. Author Kerstin Musolf told Discovery News that “it could be a question of different syllable types or endurance in singing or a combination of both.”
According to an Austrian study, when males get a whiff of scent from available, non-related, adult females, they begin singing out at varying degrees. Females were more attracted to songs crooned by unfamiliar males that weren’t related to them. Sometimes, the females return the romantic gesture by cleaning themselves, vigorously all over.