Listen "The Mouse Club: We will still be here once you're gone"
Episode Synopsis
A deep dive into a study on wild house mice in a Swiss barn, revealing a surprisingly stable social structure. Researchers used RFID tracking to observe dynamic communities that persist over seasons, even outliving individual mice. These communities exhibit fission-fusion dynamics, splitting in summer and re-merging in winter. Crucially, the study highlights that female-female interactions are the primary drivers of this long-term community stability, a finding that challenges previous assumptions about dominant males.Disclaimer: This podcast was generated by an AI. You can find the original paper that inspired this discussion here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.24.963512
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