Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mouse in a paper cup, lays the cup on its side in the grass, and takes off the lid. “When the…
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Hmmm. Having run mice on the elevated plus maze, I wouldn’t call avoidance of the open arms “fear”. To me it looks like the mice check out the open arms, find nothing of interest, and then spend their time in the less risky more comfy arms. So the mice with field experience would have experience of things changing, and might decide to check out the open arms again, just in case.