A mouse scurries up to six chestnuts. Three look healthy. Three have exit holes where moth larvae ate the insides before they ...

Researchers have discovered several factors that affect field mouse behavior using seeds from dwarf bamboo plants, a plant that flowers once in a century. Their findings not only suggest the ...

New research suggests female mice show more stable exploratory behavior than male mice, despite hormone cycles The results challenge a long-held assumption that hormones have a broad effect on ...

Like physical traits, behavioral traits have a heritable component, and personalities may resemble one parent’s more than the other. New research in mice finds that specific complex behaviors in these ...

Inflammation in the hippocampus -- the brain's memory center -- significantly alters motivation and behavior in mice, according to new research. Inflammation in the hippocampus -- the brain's memory ...