The secret to sniffing out a safe supper
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 11:14
in Biology & Nature
When mice smell the scent of food on the breath of their fellow mice, they use that experience to decide what's safe to eat in the future. Key in that learning process is the pairing of a particular odor with a chemical ingredient found in mouse breath, scientists knew. What they didn't know was how mice manage to sniff that connection out. According to a report published online on July 15th in Current Biology, now they do.