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Behavioral ecology: Striped mice speak up
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 7, 2025
Abstract:
The social behaviors of mice have been a focus of laboratory research for over a century. A new study trades the lab for the coastal shrublands of South Africa to uncover how vocal communication shapes social interactions in the wild.

