How do lab mice behave, if you let them be mice?
While billions of global research dollars are spent studying lab mice as ‘models’, a Cornell University study is the first to shed light on their social
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While billions of global research dollars are spent studying lab mice as ‘models’, a Cornell University study is the first to shed light on their social
Cornell researchers have found that when laboratory mice are placed in large outdoor enclosures, male behavior was essentially the same as genetically wild mice, but females displayed radically different behaviors.
A Dec. 2022 study by the Raguso Lab, led by Prof. Robert Raguso, neurobiology and behavior, discovered that the flower Datura wrightii actively maintains humidity gradients, which has potential implications for signaling to pollinators.