{"id":2201,"date":"2025-03-05T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/mice-perform-first-aid-on-unconscious-companions\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:07:30","slug":"mice-perform-first-aid-on-unconscious-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/mice-perform-first-aid-on-unconscious-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mice perform first aid on unconscious companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-05 15:07:30<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Mice give each other first aid.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers observed the rodents battling to revive their stricken companions who had been drugged and knocked out.<BR><br \/>\nThe mice pawed, licked and cleared the airways of their peers in behaviour that was very similar to first aid protocols adopted by humans.<BR><br \/>\nThe study involved placing one mouse under anaesthesia to render it unconscious temporarily before a &#8220;bystander&#8221; mouse was introduced.<BR><br \/>\nIn over half of the cases, the rodent pulled on the unconscious mouse&#8217;s tongue to enlarge its airway.<BR><br \/>\nWhen the incapacitated creature had a small plastic ball in its mouth, its friend was able to extract the object 80 per cent of the time before carrying on with the life-saving routine.<BR><br \/>\nThe behaviour is thought to be instinctive instead of learnt as the mice hadn&#8217;t seen an unconscious animal before.<BR><br \/>\nHuizhong Whit Tao, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, told the US broadcaster NPR: &#8220;It seems that the mouse can perform, deliberately, this whole set of behaviours.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nShe added: &#8220;This is the first time that we&#8217;ve reported these kinds of emergency-like responses from animals.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-05 15:07:30 Mice give each other first aid. Researchers observed the rodents battling to revive their stricken companions who had been drugged and knocked out. The mice pawed, licked and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}