Maternal care in house mice

By Barbara König, H. Markl. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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From house mouse to mouse house: the behavioural biology of free-living Mus musculus and its implications in the laboratory (2004, background): “Pups learn about the food eaten by their mother long before they are weaned off milk (Valsecchi et al., 1993; Lawlor, 1994), and begin to try this solid food themselves between 10 and 17 days (König and Markl, 1987; Horn, 2000).”
Not only mate choice matters: fitness consequences of social partner choice in female house mice (2008, methodology): “Reproductive success was calculated by counting the number of a female's pups that reached an age of 17 days, that is when pups survive on their own under laboratory conditions (König & Markl 1987).”
Maternal behaviour in Mus musculus sp.: An ethological review (2008, methodology): “Apart from nursing, males show the same parental care as females (König and Markl, 1987; Ostermeyer, 1981) and Wright and Brown (2000) even reported that pups housed with both parents received twice as much parental care.”
More than numbers matter: the effect of social factors on behaviour and welfare of laboratory rodents and non-human primates (2007, background): “198 199 Although taking place at the age when the pups stop suckling naturally (21-23 days; e g 200 König and Markl, 1987), the standard weaning procedure of abrupt separation must be 201 considered a premature separation, as in nature young rodents only migrate from their 202 home colony at sexual…”