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 ...

For a mouse in the wild, spotting aerial predators -- like ... to the brain -- "but the missing piece was mouse behavior: What do mice do with their vision?" Yilmaz, under the supervision of ...

“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 ...

Nest-building is a normal behavior for mice in the wild that is usually not seen in lab mice. Garner theorized that laboratory mice, like mice in the wild, would build nests for warmth. The ...

“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.

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 ...