An infected mouse is attracted to the smell of cat urine and will move out into the open, displaying reckless behaviour.
Can mice be attracted to birds?
Imagine that - mice are attracted to food.
For example, virgin female mice are attracted to playbacks of male song, but not pup vocalizations [8].
The cylinders were flavoured with vanilla (vanilla flavour dissolved in water [0.02 %]) as mice are attracted by this flavour.
The scent of female mice is enough to cause male mice to start 'singing', and female mice are attracted to the male's song.
The playback study showed that female mice are attracted to sounds of male songs, whereas they neither displayed a preference nor avoidance of pup vocalization or artificial sounds.
Female mice are attracted to and show a preference for airborne urinary volatiles from familiar individual males whose scent marks they have previously contacted physically relative to males whose scent is unfamiliar [ 3, 4, 50].
They used a robust behavioral assay in which receptive female mice are attracted to investigate and spend more time in proximity to urine from a sexually mature male, compared to female urine.
Female mice are attracted to playback sounds of male sounds (Fig. 1c), in-line with the results of the study by Pomerantz and colleagues (Pomerantz et al. 1983) which showed that females prefer intact vocalizing males over devocalized males.
You might not think of it as mouse food, but mice are attracted to all types of edible substances they can find on the ground, on counters and in cabinets.
