The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
they don't sing at all when they're mounting a male, so you can easily distinguish whether mounting behavior by a male mouse is reproductive or agonistic, aggressive, according to whether it's accompanied by ultrasonic vocalizations or not.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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male-male mounting tends to be more prominent among mice when they haven't had a lot of fighting experience.
male-male mounting tends to be more prominent among mice when they haven't had a lot of fighting experience.