{"id":146873,"date":"2022-09-23T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/friend-or-foe-how-mice-decide-to-make-love-or-war"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:23:45","slug":"friend-or-foe-how-mice-decide-to-make-love-or-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/friend-or-foe-how-mice-decide-to-make-love-or-war","title":{"rendered":"Friend or Foe? How Mice Decide to Make Love or War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/friend-or-foe-how-mice-decide-to-make-love-or-war.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: The neural circuitry that connects olfactory information about another mouse\u2019s sex to decision-making in the brain determines the behavioral outcome as to whether aggression or affection is expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: CalTech.<\/p>\n<p>Dog owners whose pets meet during a walk are familiar with the immediate sniffing investigation that typically ensues. Initially, the owners cannot tell whether their dogs will wind up fighting, playing, or trying to mount each other. Something is clearly happening in the dog\u2019s brain to make it decide how to behave toward the other dog\u2014but what is going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The neural circuitry that connects olfactory information about another mouse\u2019s sex to decision-making in the brain determines the behavioral outcome as to whether aggression or affection is expressed. Source: CalTech. Dog owners whose pets meet during a walk are familiar with the immediate sniffing investigation that typically ensues. Initially, the owners cannot tell whether [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}