Posts Tagged ‘Mouse Behavior’
Smartest Mouse in the World? – Amazing mouse agility tests show how intelligent rodents are.
13Jun12
Despite having cared for laboratory mice for years, I’m wowed by the complexity of this task! The trainer’s site: http://mouse-agility.com/ describes the animals living conditions and training method. The trainer keeps the mice housed in groups of 3-4 females, in 3-dimensional cages such as a remodeled cupboard, or: a pyramid of different-sized tables, the several floors […]
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Tags: mice, mouse, Mouse Behavior, obedience, training, tricks
Viberg of the Eriksson lab in Sweden shows in a new paper in Toxicology (full text) that a single exposure to BPA on postnatal day 10 has dose-dependent effects. (Mice sexually mature around p45.) The paper is still in press, so details are sparse, but authors saw changes in spontaneous behavior when exposed to a […]
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Tags: BPA, Brain Development, Environmental Toxin, Mouse Behavior