It turns out that mouse feel each other’s pain.
American scientists have found that mice can feel each other’s pain through the smell that they emit, experiencing discomfort.
Reported by the journal Science Advances.
The discovery was made by accident when scientists studied the mice to help people find a way to fight alcoholism. The resulting abstinency syndrome is often accompanied by pain throughout the body and increased sensitivity to pain.
It turned out that when the mice experienced such feelings of their relatives react. And it turned out that it was the smell that stood out at this moment by the body.
Healthy mice, being with patients, 68% felt more pain than mice from the other control group.