the scientists managed to reinstate traits typical of wild mice, which were lost through the domestication process and are absent in laboratory strains, including those pertaining to behavior ...

“We were not expecting what we found in females.” The female C57 mice demonstrated completely distinct social behavior from their wild-derived counterparts, with more interconnected social ...

This unexpected behavior sparked our curiosity ... Although it remains unclear how these behaviors manifest in the wild, the observation that mice display instinctive helping behaviors suggests ...

“The beauty is that we can tap into this diversity in behavior,” said Felix Baier ... most scientists studying Peromyscus either capture them from the wild or use mice derived from lab colonies that ...

If that kind of behavior causes mice to eat less in the wild, it could spell trouble, Gregg explains, because not getting enough calories can be detrimental for a mouse. The real surprise came after ...

“When we analyze behavior types, we often actually are ... to identify genetic mutants and distinguish them from wild types? —mice with genetics as they appear in nature.

In a comprehensive study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, researchers tracked 244 wild-derived male house mice—yes ... Their behavior evolves in real-time ...

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer: Feminism in the Wild is a collaboration between an evolutionary biologist with a focus on animal behavior (Ambika) and a scholar of feminist science studies (Melina).

The instinct to help a fellow creature runs deep. We see the behavior in humans, elephants and now mice. A new study published in the journal Science outlines what it calls prosocial behavior in ...