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 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) ...
"When you look at singing mice and lab mice side by side, their brains are almost indistinguishable," Isko said. "The differences only show up when you trace where individual neurons send signals." ...
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 ...
Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found might change how we study both species. By Annie Roth In the balmy cloud ...
Scientists studying singing mice and human speech are uncovering how singing mice communication may reveal new clues about human speech evolution and brain function. Alexas Fotos/Pexels ...
An illustration of an Alston’s singing mouse from the 1882 publication Biologia Centrali-Americana: Mammalia Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When it comes to conversation, the closest the animal ...
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