Audio: Singing Mice

Somewhere out there
beneath the pale moon light... Er, not quite.

A Guardian article details the musical come-ons produced by male mice:

Research by a team of neuroscientists has revealed that male mice construct complex songs and sing them for minutes at a time when they come across sex pheromones produced by potential mates.

The male mice are stimulated to sing by exposing them to q-tips swabbed in the urine of female mice in heat. Not quite romantic, but the results are rather listenable, albeit with amplification. Those of us who'd like to observe this in life would need to be blessed with ultrasonic hearing. For everyone else, mp3's of rodent love songs.