• DOI:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80134-0
Corpus ID: 54268433

Communal nesting and communal nursing in house mice, Mus musculus domesticus

@article{Manning1995CommunalNA,
  title={Communal nesting and communal nursing in house mice, Mus musculus domesticus},
  author={C. J. Manning and D. Dewsbury and E. Wakeland and W. Potts},
  journal={Animal Behaviour},
  year={1995},
  volume={50},
  pages={741-751}
}

• C. J. Manning, D. Dewsbury, +1 author W. Potts
• Published 1995
• Geography
• Animal Behaviour

Abstract The functional significance of communal nesting and nursing is poorly understood. Female house mice often communally nest, and within these communal nests females appear to indiscriminately nurse all pups, a rare trait for any mammal. In this study, the hypothesis that communal nesting provides protection from conspecific infanticide was tested and supported in semi-natural populations of house mice. Conspecific infanticide in single-mother nests (69%, N = 412) was twice that in… Expand

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