Wheels sometimes do crop up in nature, especially when a human placed them there. Humans recently did it again, as this report makes clear: “Wheel Running in the Wild,” Johanna H. (“Joke”) Meijer [pictured here] and Yuri Robbers, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 281 no. 1786, July 7, 2014. The authors, at Leiden University […]
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Wild house mouse music
Two studies of wild house mouse music, both from Vienna, the city of music. (The authors are now in various places, though. Possibly so, too, are some of the mice. Co-author Penn is still in Vienna, we believe.) “Spectrographic analyses reveal signals of individuality and kinship in the ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of wild house mice,” Frauke […]