It’s hard to say what it is about animals that we love the most – their cute or beautiful looks or their natural innocence. But whatever the case may be, the following animal facts  is bound to blow your mind

Mouse Behaviour In Captivity:

Mice in captivity (or kept as pets, domestic or for breeding), show small changes in their behaviour. Female mice are more sociable in captivity than in the wild. If you were to keep several female mice together, they would not fight. In fact, if 2 or 3 females gave birth to litters at the same time, they would put their babies in one heap and share responsibilities with feeding and caring for them. The individuals would of course give birth in their own corners and spend the first few hours alone with their own litters.

This is obviously not the female mouses natural behaviour.

Male mice show their natural territorial behaviour also in captivity. It is not wise to keep males together. However, males are social rodents and need company, therefore, they would live a lot happier if paired with a female.

One behaviour pattern that is different between wild male mice and captive male mice is there paternal instinct. Captive male mice will help rear the young. They will lay on them and keep them warm while the female rests and eats. This paternal behaviour in the male mouse has not been observed in the wild but then again if they have this instinct in captivity then it possibly could happen in the wild.

Do Mice Get Lonely?

As a matter of fact, mice do get lonely. As mice are social animals, they are better kept in pairs, but as mentioned before, male mice are better living with female mice and not another male. Females of course, will live together. A lone male mouse could be very sad and its health might suffer as a consequence. But then again, pairing him with a female will no doubt result in a pregnancy and not just the once either. A problem worth some serious consideration.

Other facts

• Mice are very funny little creatures, they are extremely social as well as clean pets to keep in a home. They create one place in their cages to put their food, one to use as a bathroom and another area where they like to sleep
• Mice are happiest when kept with as least one other mouse
• There are loads of different varieties of mice, which include domestic mice, fancy mice, spiny mice and what is known as zebra mice
• When really frightened by something, a mouse will play dead until they feel the danger has passed
• When Walt Disney first created his now famous cartoon character, he called him Mortimer Mouse. It was his wife, Lillian who thought the name Mickey Mouse would be better