{"id":246604,"date":"2026-11-05T02:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/mice-that-watch-fights-come-away-battle-ready"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:52:22","slug":"mice-that-watch-fights-come-away-battle-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/mice-that-watch-fights-come-away-battle-ready","title":{"rendered":"Mice that watch fights come away battle-ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"Mice that watch fights come away battle-ready\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vMO3XmNXe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>People love to watch violent things. From slasher films to boxing, there\u2019s some intrinsic appeal to watching people get pummeled. The dystopian thriller \u201cSquid Game,\u201d for instance, debuted in 2021 and in three years racked up 330 million streams totaling more than 2.8 billion hours viewed. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-humans-monkeys-videos-conflict.html\" target=\"_blank\">monkeys pay more attention to videos of other monkeys fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Princeton University have found that there may be something useful gained from all this watching: being better prepared if you find yourself in a similar situation.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper, Princeton neuroscientists reveal that male mice that merely watched other males fight were better prepared fighters themselves without being any meaner or more aggressive than other mice. Their brains changed in many of the same ways, too, as those of mice with actual fighting experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People love to watch violent things. From slasher films to boxing, there\u2019s some intrinsic appeal to watching people get pummeled. The dystopian thriller \u201cSquid Game,\u201d for instance, debuted in 2021 and in three years racked up 330 million streams totaling more than 2.8 billion hours viewed. Even monkeys pay more attention to videos of other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246604","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}