"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."
mncharity 7 days ago [-]
FWIW, the paper is "snippets" paywalled, and I didn't find it as a preprint or elsewhere, nor an author website.
aaron695 6 days ago [-]
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otteromkram 7 days 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.
trebligdivad 7 days 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!
delichon 6 days ago [-]
echosmellcation
karim79 6 days ago [-]
*echosmellocation
metalman 7 days 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
Sabinus 7 days ago [-]
In English it's a convention to put a space after a ,
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."