Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Alston’s singing mice have adapted to sing to express their ...

Deep in the cloud forests of Central America, two species of singing mice put on a high-pitched opera to mark their territory and stave off clashes, researchers discovered. Alston's singing mouse ...

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Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after ...

March 1 (UPI) --Through the study of mice songs, scientists have uncovered neural circuitry that could explain the rapid pacing of human conversation. Alston singing mice are found in the remote cloud ...

Alston's brown mice, also called Alston's singing mice are capable of singing an operatic duet that scientists believe may offer clues about our own speech. Studies have identified a brain circuit ...

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 ...

Males of the study species, Alston's singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina), produce songs with nearly a hundred audible notes. They challenge competitors by singing in turns, alternating like talking ...

What do humans, bottlenose dolphins, and the singing mice of the Costa Rican cloud forests have in common? Well according to a new scientific study, we all share the power of singing...in duets! But ...