This mouse quickly works its way through a wooden maze, remembering its earlier path when needing to backtrack.
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Much like humans, mice have recently been shown to display distinct facial expressions when they are in pain versus when they are not.
[Nature Methods] via [Wired]
While well fed mice will avoid chocolate that is paired with an electric shock, hungry mice jonesing for the sweet treat will still eat it even after learning its negative consequence.
[BMC Neuroscience] via [Physorg], [photo]
While the agility of this mouse is uncontested, his memory for how to complete each obstacle in its course is perhaps even more impressive.
As shown in the above figure plotting a chosen path, when placed into new environments, mice will often establish home bases and mark these spots by spinning and quickly gyrating their bodies, allowing them to visually take in their entire environment at once.
[PLos Computational Biology] via [Labspaces]
