Among the exotic animals owned by actor Nicolas Cage — star of the new movie "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" — are crows, cats, turtles, fish, an octopus and a two-headed snake named ...

When they were first placed into the enclosures, both the C57 and wild-derived mice shared space with their cage mates. Over time, the territorial overlap decreased as they began to establish ...

Seeing this behaviour in wild mice might be hard, says Márquez. “Mice are prey animals that often do not live in big groups, thus usually they will hide quite well from us humans.

In the lab, mice are housed with other mice in shoe box-sized cages. When space is limited, they create a hierarchy where a dominant male rules the area. But when placed outdoors, males will ...

The most commonly used inbred strain of mice — C57BL/6J — inspired this study. After observing that C57 lab mice acted in a much more docile manner than their wild-derived counterparts, Caleb ...