Male mice use female mice to distract aggressors and avoid conflict, study shows

A research group led by Joshua Neunuebel at the University of Delaware, U.S., tracked the behavior of mice using machine learning to understand how they handle aggressive behavior from other mice. The researchers' findings, published on October 15 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, show that male mice deescalate aggressive encounters by running over to a female mouse to distract the aggressive male mouse.

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