Aggression

(AM1600000)

Domineering, assaultive or forceful physical action

Reciprocal social interaction test; Resident-intruder test; Competitive courtship assay; Mirror test; Home cage behavior; General observations; Neurological exam battery; Three-chamber social approach test; Open field test

Allogrooming

(AM1600001)

Behavior in which individuals in a cohort clean or maintain one another's outer body or appearance

General observations; Reciprocal social interaction test; Visible burrow system; Open field test; Home cage behavior

Huddling behavior

(AM1600002)

Tendency of mice to pile together when sleeping

Home cage behavior; Visible burrow system; Novel cage test; General observations

Inanimate object preference

(AM1600003)

Preference or curiosity towards inanimate object and play over a social stimulus

Novel object interaction test; Novel object recognition test; Reciprocal social interaction test; Novel object exploration test; Three-chamber social approach test; Open field test

Juvenile play

(AM1600004)

Social behavior at a young age towards another juvenile social stimulus mouse, including sniffing, crawling and other play behavior

Reciprocal social interaction test; Three-chamber social approach test; Open field test; Home cage behavior; General observations

Mating behavior

(AM1600005)

Initiation of sexual behavior

Competitive courtship assay; General observations; Scent marking test; Courtship conditioning assay; Reciprocal social interaction test; Open field test; Mating behavior test

Nest building behavior

(AM1600007)

Behavior of building sleeping nests out of any available materials

Nest building assay; Home cage behavior; General observations; Open field test

Passive social behavior

(AM1600008)

Social interaction of stimulus mouse towards experimental mouse

Reciprocal social interaction test

Social approach

(AM1600012)

Preference for a social target, such as an unfamiliar stimulus mouse, over a non-social target, such as an inanimate object, or empty environment

Three-chamber social approach test; Open field test; Reciprocal social interaction test; Partition test; Social recognition test; Resident-intruder test; Olfactory discrimination test

Social dominance

(AM1600013)

Exhibition of domineering, assaultive posture or hostile physical action toward other mice during instigated confrontations

Tube test of social dominance; Dominance hierarchy formation

Social interaction

(AM1600014)

Normal behavior towards social targets, measured by time spent in direct contact with stimulus mice

Resident-intruder test; Reciprocal social interaction test; Three-chamber social approach test; Open field test; Social transmission of food preference; Social recognition test; Elevated plus maze test; Light-dark exploration test; Y-maze test; Partition test; Hole-board test; Running wheel test; Novel cage test; Home cage behavior; Interaction with caged adult; Modified open field test with novel object; T-maze test; Partition test in tank; Novel object exploration test; General observations; Separation-reunion test; Novel object interaction test; Elevated T-maze test; Dominance hierarchy formation; Visible burrow system; Radial maze test

Social cohesion

(AM1600015)

Preference of an organism to maintain a minimum or maximum distance from conspecifics.

Social space assay

Social interaction: opposite sex

(AM1600016)

Interaction of male mice with female stimulus mice, to initiate mating behavior

Spectographic analysis of vocalization recordings; Reciprocal social interaction test; Three-chamber social approach test; Scent stimulus

Social interaction: with juveniles

(AM1600017)

Interaction of adult mice with juveniles (aged 2-3 weeks)

Reciprocal social interaction test; Open field test

Social memory

(AM1600018)

Preference to interact with a novel stimulus mouse rather than a familiar mouse

Three-chamber social approach test; Social recognition test; Partition test; General observations; Reciprocal social interaction test; Courtship conditioning assay; Olfactory habituation-dishabituation test; Courtship assay; Open field test; Resident-intruder test

Social place preference

(AM1600019)

Conditioned preference for objects (like bedding material) shared between cage mates - from social cues

Olfactory discrimination test; Social conditioned place preference

Social scent marking or recognition

(AM1600020)

Preference for social odor, such as urine or used bedding, over a non-social odor and recognition of unfamiliar urine, maternal scent

Olfactory discrimination test; Olfactory habituation-dishabituation test; Homing test; Three-chamber social approach test; Reciprocal social interaction test; Hole-board test; Western blot; General observations; Scent marking test; Maternal scent recognition test

Social transmission of food preference

(AM1600021)

Finding location of buried food following other mice

Social transmission of food preference; Reciprocal social interaction test

Social withdrawal

(AM1600022)

Tendency to refrain from participating in social situations and to seek isolation

Three-chamber social approach test; Visible burrow system; Reciprocal social interaction test; Open field test; Shoaling assay; Home cage behavior

Nest utilization behavior

(AM1600023)

Behavior of utilizing nests for resting/sleeping

Nest utilization assay

Social memory: short-term social memory

(AM1600024)

Preference to interact with a novel stimulus conspecific rather than a familiar conspecific, tested after a short interval, e.g. 5 minutes

Reciprocal social interaction test; Courtship assay

Social memory: long-term social memory

(AM1600025)

Preference to interact with a novel stimulus conspecific rather than a familiar conspecific, tested after a long interval, e.g. 24 hours

Courtship assay; Reciprocal social interaction test

Social fear conditioning: learning

(AM1600026)

Acquisition of affective behavior based on social cues produced by a conspecific, which can imbue associated environmental cues and contexts with affective significance; based on conspecific exposure to fear conditioning paradigm where a conditioned stimulus is associated with an unconditioned stimulus

Fear conditioning test

Social fear conditioning: memory of cue

(AM1600027)

Association of environmental cue (e.g. tone) to affective distress; based on conspecific exposure to fear conditioning paradigm where a conditioned stimulus is associated with an unconditioned stimulus

Fear conditioning test

Social fear conditioning: memory of context

(AM1600028)

Association of environmental context to affective distress; based on conspecific exposure to fear conditioning paradigm where a conditioned stimulus of a conspecific introduced in a wired cage within the test chamber, is associated with an unconditioned stimulus of foot shocks

Fear conditioning test

Mating behavior: male courtship behavior

(AM1600029)

Mating behavior test; General observations; Courtship assay

Mating behavior: male courtship behavior: prior orientation

(AM1600030)

General observations; Mating behavior test

Mating behavior: male courtship behavior: wing extension

(AM1600031)

General observations; Mating behavior test

Mating behavior: male courtship behavior: proboscis-mediated licking

(AM1600032)

Mating behavior test; General observations

Social cohesion: shoaling behavior

(AM1600033)

Fish behavior where a group of fishes swim together for social reasons, to find food, or combat predators.

Three-chamber social approach test; Shoaling assay

Mating behavior: male courtship behavior: audible vocalization

(AM1600034)

The process during wing vibration where the male insect produces a species-specific acoustic signal as part of courtship behavior called a love song.

Sound Recordings

Mating behavior: male courtship behavior: chaining

(AM1600035)

The formation of chains of multiple males following each other during courtship.

General observations

Aggression: auditory stimulus induced

(AM1600036)

Aggressive behavior induced by an auditory stimulus and based on competition between males of the same species over access to resources such as females, dominance, status, etc. and characterized by noise, threats, and is often less injurious.

Competitive Courtship Assay

Social cohesion: kin preference

(AM1600037)

Preference for related individuals over unrelated individuals of the same species

Shoaling assay

Empathy

(AM1600038)

Ability to understand the experience or emotion of another, usually in distress

Peer-to-peer social attachment

(AM1600039)

Learned behavior of making a choice that has a higher probability of increased reward in the form of peer-to-peer interaction

Social conditioned place preference test

Filial social attachment

(AM1600040)

Learned behavior of making a choice that has a higher probability of increased reward in the form of alloparent bedding

Alloparent conditioned place preference test

Social defeat stress sensitivity

(AM1600041)

Sensitivity to social defeat stress, which in rodents is induced by exposure to an aggressive strain of mouse or rat, such as the ICR mouse