Helping-Like Behaviour in Mice Towards Conspecifics Constrained Inside Tubes.

ABSTRACT: Prosocial behaviour, including helping behaviour, benefits others. Recently, helping-like behaviour has been observed in rats, but whether it is oriented towards rescue, social contact with others, or other goals remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated whether helping-like behaviour could be observed in mice similar to that in rats. Because mice are social animals widely used in neuroscience, the discovery of helping-like behaviour in mice would be valuable in clarifying the psychological and biological mechanisms underlying pro-sociability. We constrained mice inside tubes. Subject mice were allowed to move freely in cages with tubes containing constrained conspecifics. The subject mice released both cagemates and stranger mice but did not engage in opening empty tubes. Furthermore, t

SUBMITTER: Ueno H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6456590 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature