A mouse is a conscious, pulling the tongue
Wenjian Sun et al. 2025
When they find another mouse unconsciously, some mice seem to revive their friend, leaving them, bite as well as ignoring the tongue to clean the airways. Caring behavior behaviors can be more common in animal kingdom than we thought.
There are rare reports of large social mammals, such as disabled members of the species trying to help Wild chimpanzees injured and injured classmates, Dolphins trying to push the leather pod to the surface and Supporting elephants to relatives.
Now, Li zhang At the University of Southern California (USC) and his colleagues have made the film when they presented a lab cider, which was active or anesthesiate and without response.
In a series of tests, an average of 47% of a 13-minute observation window, to interact with the unconscious partner, showing three behaviors.
“They start with sniffing, and then decorated, and then they made a very intensive or physical interaction,” says Zhangek. “It really opened the mouth of this animal and pulled the tongue.”
More physical interactions are also involved in spreading eyes and biting the mouth area. After focusing on his mouth, mice have no unanswered partner’s tongue, more than 50% of cases.
In an extraordinary test, researchers slowly put the plastic ball in the mouth of the non-toxic mouse. In 80% of cases, the mouse successfully removed the object.
“If we stretched out the observation window, the success rate may be even higher,” says teammates Huizhong TaoAlso in USC.
The mice woke up and began to walk faster than mice faster than mice, and after moving their loads, the caregivers slowed down and then stopped the behavior of caregivers.
Carer mouse also spent more time than if they didn’t know the mice aimed at unconscious.
Recovery behavior is not analog of cardiopulmonary revivalOr CPR, which requires specialized training, says Zhang. It is like using strong odors or using a slap to wake up or make basic first aid to ensure that a unconscious can breathe. Positioning an anesthetized patient’s tongue so that the air is not blocked, it is very important during surgery, he says.
Zhang and his colleagues discovered that the behaviors of oxytozine were driven in Amygdala and the hypothalamo regions of the brain. Hormone oxytocin participates in many other behaviors during many vertebrate species.
Similar behavior appears in laboratory mice Research paper assistant another group and described A third group in the last month.
“I’ve never seen these types of behavior when we do experiments in the laboratory, but we never recover an animal until the partner is completely awake,” says Cristina Márquez Neuroscience and Cell Biology Coimbra, Portugal. “Three independent laboratories indistinguished similar behaviors. However, we should really be careful about the intentions that we observe in non-humans or those who are seen.”
Zhang and his colleagues believe that the behavior is inherent, because all the animals tested in some parts were only 2 to 3 months and see that behavior beforehand or anesthetized cage.
It suggests that such instinctive behaviors can be very present among social animals than we have seen cohesion and so far.
Seeing this behavior in wild mice can be tough, says Márquez. “Mice are preying animals that do not live in large groups, so they will usually be pretty well hidden from our humans. But (account) we don’t see that we don’t mean.”
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