Male mice that live together establish and
maintain social rankings, Hu explains.
Not exact matches
Remarkably, stimulating these neurons during
social dominance tests one day affected the mice's performance — without any stimulation — the next day; mice receiving more than six photostimulated wins all
maintained their new
rank, whereas most mice receiving fewer than five photostimulated wins returned to their original
rank, the authors report.
These alliances help females
maintain or increase their
social rank and compete for resources.
Individual traits, such as sex and
social rank, and environmental effects, such as the amount of rainfall and the abundance of prey, also matter, but the ability of individuals to form and
maintain social bonds in triads was key, according to the study, which appears today in the journal Ecology Letters.
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