Very happy to announce a new preprint on vocal communication in wild house mice! tl;dr we spent 16 months recording wild mice in a barn in the Swiss countryside - we learned that vocalization is seasonal and correlated with features of social groups! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice

House mice (Mus musculus domesticus) are among the most widely studied laboratory models of mammalian social behavior, yet we know relatively little about the ecology of their behaviors in natural env...