Group Sleeping - Huddling
Mouse Ethogram > Active Behaviors > General Activity > Affiliative Interactions > Group Sleeping > Huddling
Overview and Meaning
Huddling is an affiliative interaction that is often performed for the purposes of warmth and security.
Description
Huddling is when a mouse's entire body is pressed up against another mouse's body.
Classification
Affiliative Interactions, variant of Group Sleeping
Contexts
Affiliative behaviors are social interactions that function to reinforce social bonds with a group or which are of mutual benefit to all animals involved in the interaction.
Variants
A sleeping group can be a combination of dog piling and huddling.
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A Comprehensive Ethogram of the Laboratory Mouse
