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Singing Mice

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When you think of animals that sing, birds will certainly come to mind. Whales might, too. But mice? Or fish?  It turns out mice and fish do sing, although “vocalizations” might be a more technically correct way of describing the sounds they make.  Bret Pasch, a graduate student at the University of Florida, says there are plenty of mouse species that sing. “The more we search, the more we find that rodents and other small mammals produce vocalizations,” he says.

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