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Mouse-to-Mouse Resuscitation: Rodents Try to Revive Unconscious Buddies

• bell-cot 2y ago
  > Zhang and his colleagues designed different experiments to analyze how a mouse behaved when it encountered another mouse that had been knocked out with anesthesia. In nature, anesthetized mice would be fairly rare. Might these behaviors have evolved to reduce the mortality rate of kin when a shared burrow flooded, or collapsed?