marshraya day ago
Since the university News Center couldn't be bothered to link to the actual article:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105908
"Here, we propose that ultrasonic vocalizations may affect what rodents smell by altering the deposition of inhaled particles and that rodents coordinate active sniffing with sound production specifically to enhance reception of pheromones."
mncharity14 hours ago
FWIW, the paper is "snippets" paywalled, and I didn't find it as a preprint or elsewhere, nor an author website.
aaron6957 hours ago
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delichon5 hours ago
echosmellcation
otteromkram15 hours ago
This is wild; I like how one of the lead scientists used their background in another discipline (humpback whales) to help uncover this discovery about mice and USVs.
trebligdivad11 hours ago
I don't think it's too unusual to move between animals in something like that; but that's about as big a range (and difference in type) as you're going to get isn't it!
metalman16 hours ago
so.Rats have,tuned olfactory nasal tractor beams. use this knowledge to kill rats there must be a huge,evolutionary/survival advantage that would be difficult for a preditor to exploit under natural conditions here little rat,yesss,everything is as pheremonaly fine as we can make it,closer little rat,endorphins await,trusssst us
Sabinus9 hours ago
In English it's a convention to put a space after a ,