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Male mice use female mice to distract aggressors and avoid conflict
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-A research group led by Joshua Neunueb el at the University of Delaware, USA, tracked the behavior of mice using machin e learning to understand how they handle aggressive behavior from other mice. Th e researchers' findings, published on October 15th in the open-access journal PL OS Biology, show that male mice deescalate aggressive encounters by running over to a female mouse to distract the aggressive male mouse. The researchers recorded groups of two male and two female mice interacting over five hours. Like many other animals, mice have social hierarchies, and in almos t each group recorded, one male was always significantly more aggressive towards the other. Social interactions can be challenging to study objectively, so the researchers used a machine learning approach to analyze aggressive interactions and how the mice respond. In total, they observed over 3,000 altercations between the male m ice, and the machine learning algorithm helped researchers determine the most li kely responses to aggression and whether these actions resolved or furthered the conflict.
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