“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of ...

When mice find a fellow member of their species unconscious, they appear to administer first-aid by licking at the face […] ...

Grooming increased in vigor over the test period from sniffing and licking to biting at the other mouse's mouth and tongue, with more aggressive actions being seen in pairs of mice that were more ...

Mice instinctively act as first responders when they encounter unconscious companions, focusing intense grooming efforts on their peers' heads to help revive them, according to new research from UCLA ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Science and Technology of China, caught the incredible act on camera ...

Young mice seemingly attempt to revive an anaesthetised cage mate by grooming and biting it and will even pull aside the tongue to clear its airway ...

The study published in the journal Science, states that when a drugged mouse was placed in an enclosure, their peer spent more time sniffing and grooming. As the drugged animal became more and ...

The study showed that mice reacting to unconscious peers acted instinctively in an emergency rather than out of curiosity.

They were also seen licking and grooming their fallen lab-mates with ... immobility and unresponsiveness and ceased once the mouse had regained activity, suggesting that they had been triggered ...