ANIMALS - Mice show innate ability to vocalize: Deaf or not, courting male mice make same sounds

Scientists have long thought that mice might serve as a model for how humans learn to vocalize. But new research led by scientists at Washington State University-Vancouver has found that, unlike humans and songbirds, mice do not learn how to vocalize.

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