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Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon

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Did you know Trivia - (BEIJING) - Much to their surprise, scientists trying to prove cat urine will make cowards of male mice, a new study found the more a male mouse smells like cat pee the more alluring he is to the ladies.
Past studies had found cat odor typically causes mice to panic or flee. Scientists had expected that stressing out normal mice would curtail their love lives. To see if a whiff of cat might serve as a mouse repellent to help keep rodent pests away, researchers exposed mice to cat pee for eight weeks.
Unexpectedly, two months of cat odor did not lead to cringing mice, as one might expect from constant threatening. Instead, researchers found it led to aggressive males. These were more than twice as likely fight with other mice than rodents exposed to rabbit urine for the same amount of time.
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