the coriolis effect

"The mouse that sings like a canary at the Chicago Industrial Home for Children in Woodstock was in captivity again yesterday after a chase through the kitchen of the home. Oscar Allred, manager of the home, who calls the musical rodent "Mickey", captured it on Thursday but it escaped on Friday when he was trying to transfer it from a fruit jar to a wire cage....The mouse usually sings several minutes without stopping. It starts with a soft whirring trill, the chirps coming so close together that they provide a continuous tone, according to Mr. Genach. This grows louder to an intensive crescendo and then jumps two notes higher for another crescendo. Staccato chirps, Mr. Genach said, intersperse the song at times....
People who hear the mouse usually say, "Well, what do you know about that?" and shake their heads. Among those who went to hear it yesterday was an 86 year old man, who declared he had never seen anything like it before."
- Chicago Daily Tribune, December 14, 1936