Also in active behaviors:
General activity behaviors are classified according their purpose:
Exploratory Behaviors
Sensing information from surroundings
Sexual Behaviors
Seeking and engaging in copulation
Affiliative Interactions
Forming and maintaining social bonds
Maternal Behaviors
Tending to health and safety of pups
Agonistic Interactions
Competing for dominance or territory
Miscellaneous Behaviors
Occurring under multiple contexts
Overview and Meaning
Active behaviors involve the presence of movement. More broadly speaking, mouse behavior typically occurs in general cycles where one top-level classification of behavior predominates, as follows:
Contexts
The categories within general activity contain groups of behaviors which tend to be performed in a sequence (behavior chain) and under similar contexts.
Stanford Department of Comparative Medicine presents
A Comprehensive Ethogram of the Laboratory Mouse
