Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Alston’s singing mice have adapted to sing to express their ...

Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after ...

Life has a challenging tempo. Sometimes, it moves faster or slower than we'd like. Nevertheless, we adapt. We pick up the rhythm of conversations. We keep pace with the crowd walking a city sidewalk.

When played at slow speed, the deer mouse recording sounds a little like the wooing song of a whale. Jeffrey C. Beane Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell deciphers the ultrasonic chatter, shown here plotted on ...

In collaboration with New York University’s Michael Long and Stanford University’s Feng Chen and Shaul Druckmann, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscientist Arkarup Banerjee is using singing mice, ...