[Social effects of the behavior of male and female mice in open field].
Canonical discriminant analysis is used to differentiate behaviors, in male and female mice, either isolated, either grouped by two, or grouped by five, and placed into two different open-fields, one of 1 m X 1 m and one of 2.5 m X 2.5 m. Social effects are experimentally demonstrated. In addition the evidenced complexity of the behavior of mice in an openfield cannot be merely reduced to a decrease or increase of an emotional or of an exploratory behavior, as it has been previously stated.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment
Effets sociaux sur le comportement de souris mâles et femelles en champs libres.