The grand circle of life is on display at the University of Florida Small Animal Hospital. The institution reports that it “… offers the highest quality diagnostic and treatment care for all non-domestic animals, including Florida indigenous wildlife and non-native exotic animals.“ “Our service has exceptional experience and unparalleled facilities for non-domestic mammal medicine. We […]
Tag: Mice
Grimaces of mice and men (and rats)
Scientists are interested in whether mice’s facial expressions can be used as an index of pain. To test the idea, they compared the Mouse Grimace Scale (pictured below) with more traditional behavioral measures in examining mice’s levels of discomfort after having surgery on their manhood—er, mousehood. “The Assessment of Post-Vasectomy Pain in Mice Using Behaviour and […]
Headline of the day: Yogurt and ball circumference
Today’s Headline of the Day is from Scientific American, atop an article by Elie Dolgin: Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger Testicles The article itself begins: Last summer a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity. They were following up on the results […]
Cats, Left-pawed Mice, stress chemicals
Investigator Richard Wassersug alerts us to this study, saying “This paper looks quite technical, but it is also rather cute. Who would have thought that stress responses in the brain, as measured by immunological defenses were so lateralized?” “Predator exposure-induced cerebral interleukins are modulated heterogeneously by behavioral asymmetry“, Yun Su, Zefeng Xie, Gang Xin, Lichun […]