Topic: wild type mice

Mice are social animals and the social context affects their behavior and learning: in isolation only some prosocial behaviors are expressed. One approach to account for the social effects on behavior is to use intelligent cages, such as the Intellicage studied here, which facilitate studies of mice cohorts in a more ecological setting. This contextual advantage is countered by challenges to analyze data in a way to extract group interactions. Often these systems are used only to increase throughput of phenotypization under an assumption that the mice are, in fact, behaving independently. Unle