The Hills are Alive, With the Sounds of Rodents

Does anyone remember the singing mice from the movie "Babe"?

Turns out the concept wasn’t entirely fictional after all.  The Nov 2nd edition of the Taipei Times reprinted a story from The Guardian about the ultrasonic songs that mice make.  Click on the link below for more:

Singing Mice Article

Audio Clip #1 (Pitch reduced by 4 octaves)

Audio Clip #2 (Speed and pitch reduced 16X further)

Their songs are very similar to that of birds warbling away.  Quite pretty, actually.