Mice Give First Aid (thetimes.com) 18
Slashdot reader databasecowgirl writes: The Times is reporting an interesting study published in Science in which mice demonstrated doing first aid. In the replicated study, an anaesthetised mouse is exposed to another mouse who recognises the distress and clears airway to revive the unconscious mouse.
The mice had never seen an unconscious animal before, so the behaviour is thought to be instinctive.
From the Times: Large social mammals have previously been documented lending assistance to each other. Chimpanzees have been seen tending to wounded companions, dolphins are known to push distressed pod members to the surface to help them breathe, and elephants have been observed assisting their ailing relatives. Never before, however, has such a meticulous, paws-on approach to first aid been recorded in a creature as small as a mouse.
The mice had never seen an unconscious animal before, so the behaviour is thought to be instinctive.
From the Times: Large social mammals have previously been documented lending assistance to each other. Chimpanzees have been seen tending to wounded companions, dolphins are known to push distressed pod members to the surface to help them breathe, and elephants have been observed assisting their ailing relatives. Never before, however, has such a meticulous, paws-on approach to first aid been recorded in a creature as small as a mouse.
Quick (Score:1, Troll)
Get DOGE in to stop it, too much empathy
DOGE... RegEx and illiteracy to save America (Score:3)
I'd like to suspect Frankie Boyle was correct and it was a sailor seeking to avenge the Navy SEAL in American Sniper tagline, "America's deadliest soldier" from being eclipsed by the pilot who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.
Although it's probably a combination of RegEx, as you suggested, combined with illiteracy, as I ima
Rudimentary creatures. (Score:4, Funny)
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Mice whose father or grandfather learned to associate the smell of cherry blossom with an electric shock became more jumpy in the presence of the same odour, and responded to lower concentrations of it than normal mice. The offspring also had more M71 receptors in their brains than did mice born from parents who had not had the smell conditioning and were more sensitive to it. “There was more real estate devoted to this particular odorant receptor, suggesting that there’s something in the sperm that is informing or allowing that information to be inherited,” Dias says.
DNA sequencing of sperm from the grandfather mice and their sons also revealed epigenetic marks on the gene encoding M71 that weren’t seen in control mice. Female mice conditioned to fear acetophenone also appeared to transmit this “memory” to the next generation, although epigenetic marks on their eggs have not yet been analysed.
https://www.newscientist.com/a... [newscientist.com]
This can't be real (Score:5, Funny)
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That pun barely squeaked by the cringe test, but I won't rat on you.
Takeaway: (Score:2)
I will now include a mouse in my first aid kit.
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Yes, but do they have the capacity (Score:1)
to have a contingent of malcontent freeloader mice agitating for free first aid and government cheese [wikipedia.org] paid for by taxes levied on evil top-hat wearing capitalist mice?
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Douglas Adams Was Right, again (Score:3)
-- H2G2
i see it happen with bug (Score:1)
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MiceGPT (Score:2)
It feels like yet another "AI" hallucination.