Sentences with phrase «with cagemates»

Mice who live in social groups are more likely to get along with their cagemates if they have ample room to interact, and also get space to themselves if they do not want to play with other mice and need some private time.

For example, a female may become more territorial, more nervous and jumpy, dislike being picked up, start quarrels with cagemates or, if she was too young when she became pregnant, she may never fully grow.

For instance, gerbils and rats are very social animals that do best with cagemates of the same gender.

Both chimps and bonobos teamed up with their cagemate to pull the ropes when the fruit was cut up into easily sharable pieces, the researchers found.

Not exact matches

Rachels has described an experiment with rhesus monkeys in which not only did monkeys refrain from eating for many days in order not to shock another monkey, but the willingness to undergo such hunger was correlated with (1) whether or not the monkeys had been cagemates and (2) whether or not the hungry monkey had itself been in the situation of the monkey undergoing the shocks.

They found that, with this diet, the microbes associated with leanness didn't colonize the cagemates» intestines.

To help a dwarf hamster deal with the loss of a cagemate, offer it new toys, spend extra time interacting with it and watch that it eats enough.

The plus side of having two or more rabbits living together is that you don't have to feel guilty when you aren't home to spend time with your bunny — you'll know that your pet has a cagemate for company.

Environmental causes include: low temperature, low humidity, excessive handling of shy species, overcrowding (may occur with only two iguanas in a cage), aggression from cagemates, lack of hide box for visual security, lack of UV light and lack of proper diet.