Articles for tag: Animal Communication, Nature Secrets, Singing Mice, Ultrasonic Sounds

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How Mice Sing Love Songs in Ultrasonic Falsetto

Suhail Ahmed

In living rooms, fields, and lab arenas around the world, a quiet opera is unfolding just beyond our ears. Male mice court with rapid-fire arias too high-pitched for humans to hear, while females answer with subtle shifts in posture, attention, and approach. Scientists have spent decades trying to catch these songs in the act, teasing ...

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The Secret Wildlife of New York’s Adirondacks

Suhail Ahmed

At first glance, the Adirondacks can feel like an empty hush of spruce and rock, but that quiet is a misdirection. Beneath the canopy and under the waterline, the park thrums with lives that rarely make the postcards. Scientists are piecing together this hidden world with tools that read footprints in mud, genes in water, ...