Jeffrey R. Lucas

TL;DR: Overall, mice of different strains and sexes prefer temperatures between 26–29°C and the shift from thermotaxis to nest building is seen between 6 and 10 g of material, but up to 10 grams may be needed to alleviate thermal distress under typical temperatures.

TL;DR: A graphical framework within which census data and behavioral observations can be used to place bounds on e, s, and sp is described, which reveals unexpected differences in dispersal risk among sex and age classes of dwarf mongooses.

TL;DR: Optimal diet choice is analyzed by relaxing two sets of assumptions made in previous optimality models and it is shown that as variance in prey encounter rate increases, the time over which the forager estimates prey encounter rates will have a strong effect on the ability of the foragers to maximize the net rate of energy intake.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that nesting material would allow mice to alleviate cold stress by controlling their thermal microenvironment, thus insulating them, reducing heat loss and thermogenic processes, and reducing the need for non-shivering thermogenesis.

TL;DR: The results show a surprising difference between continents, with North American species possessing significantly smaller hippocampi than Eurasian ones and the continent effect, which makes the hoarding capacity/hippocampal formation correlation clearly significant in both families.