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} }
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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