Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice

House mice (Mus musculus domesticus) are among the most widely studied laboratory models of mammalian social behavior, yet we know relatively little about the ecology of their behaviors in natural environments. Here, we address this gap using radiotelemetry to track social interactions in a population of wild mice over 10 years, from 2013 to 2023, and interpret these interactions in the context of passive acoustic monitoring data collected from August 2022 to November 2023. Using automated vocal detection, we identify 1.3 million individual vocalizations and align them in time with continuously collected telemetry data recording social interactions between individually identifiable mice. We find that vocalization is seasonal and correlated with long-term dynamics in features of social groups. In addition, we find that vocalization is closely associated in time with entrances to and exits from those groups, occurs most often in the presence of pups, and is correlated with how much time p..., , , # Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice

This repository contains data needed to reproduce figures and analyses from \"Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice\" (Jourjine et al. 2025). It is organized into three directories:

### 1. data

* Comprises four subdirectories, each holding raw data for analyses:

#### phenotypes

* Holds the following CSV files that describe barn population checks.

`sexes.csv` is a table mapping transponder ID for each mouse to its morphological sex, as determined by an expert when the mouse was first transpondered on the basis of genital morphology. All transponder IDs have been anonymized.
* Columns are (`transponder_id`), the transponder ID of the mouse the first time it was caught and sex (`Sex`), its sex determined as above.

`All_popul_checks_update2023_transponder-and-popchecks.csv` records the size of the barn population at each population check between 2003 a...,