What matters to a mouse? Effects of internal and external context on male vocal response to female squeaks
Lauren R Brunner,
Laura M Hurley
Abstract:Individuals plastically adjust their signaling behavior depending on the social context of an interaction, but which aspects of context elicit the strongest responses from individuals is often difficult to determine. To explore how internal and external contextual factors influence the communication of house mice, we employed a split-cage playback assay to assess how dominant and subordinate male mice differed in their ultrasonic vocalization (USV) production in response to playback of broadband vocalizations … Show more
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