Interesting facts about mice you may not know

Rats are a typical representative of rodents, living in popularity throughout the world. Most of us have seen mice at least once in our lives. Many people even have some types of mice like pets. Scientists also often use white mice to do laboratory research.

Here are some interesting features about rats that we may have never heard of before.

1. Newborn mouse completely blind. Newborn mice are not able to open their eyes at birth and are completely blind. Because of their behavioral behavior, which only works at night, their vision is poor. When grown up, mice are still color blind, can only see black and white.

2. The hearing of mice is very good. Good hearing helps mice hear sounds in the ultrasonic range. To communicate with each other, the mouse produces both ultrasonic (human inaudible) sounds and normal (human-audible) sounds.

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3. The urine composition of male and female rats is different. In the urine of male mice, there are 5 factors that the urine of female mice does not.

4. Mice sleep a lot, more than 12 hours a day.

5. The mouse has a neat 'lifestyle'. When domesticated or raised as pets, rats can also be divided into different areas to eat, sleep and go to the toilet!

6. It is true that rats are cleaner than cats or dogs. Each day, mice spend a few hours cleaning themselves and their fellow humans, far more than cats and dogs.

7. Rats climb and swim very well, they can hold their breath for 3 minutes underwater. Mice can jump up to 50cm, a respectable achievement for their size.

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8. When he's too scared or can't find a way out, the mouse can fake death.

9. The mouse is very smart. They can learn and are able to solve intelligent problems like dogs. They can find their way out of the maze and play some crosswords.

10. Rats still take care of newborn rats, even if they are not theirs.

11. The rat is very highly comrade, when one rat in the group is injured or sick, it will be cared for by others. In experiments, rats often chose to help you instead of eating chocolate.

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12. The female may be willing to sacrifice herself to protect her cubs.

13. Mice tend to suffer from depression due to loneliness if not in pairs or living in the same species.

14. When having fun, mice often show signs of clenching their teeth and eye contact repeatedly.

15. Mouse teeth never stop growing, on average, their teeth grow by 12.7cm a year. so mice always have to chew on something to constantly erode their teeth.

16. Rats like pets are usually quite affectionate, when separated from their long-term owner they will be as sad as dogs.

17. The reproductive speed of mice is terrible. After being born about 3, 4 months, the mouse was able to start the reproductive cycle. Mice give birth every 3 weeks.

18. The tail of the mouse has many different functions including keeping balance when moving, communicating, adjusting the body temperature at a stable level.

19. Rats are very picky eaters. They often eat the things they love most when alone.