Alston’s singing mice carry out complex vocalizations and even appear to converse politely with one another. The neural circuitry that makes this possible is simpler than researchers expected ...

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston's singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 ...

Researchers from New York University's School of Medicine have investigated a neotropical and extremely audible rodent called Alston’s singing mouse, finding that the mouse’s relatively unique ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee and colleagues find that songs and ordinary vocalizations both arise from the midbrain caudolateral periaqueductal gray (clPAG), seen ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that ...

Life has a challenging tempo. Sometimes, it moves faster or slower than we'd like. Nevertheless, we adapt. We pick up the rhythm of conversations. We keep pace with the crowd walking a city sidewalk.

When played at slow speed, the deer mouse recording sounds a little like the wooing song of a whale. Jeffrey C. Beane Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell deciphers the ultrasonic chatter, shown here plotted on ...