The Social Brain of Mice and Humans

Mice are sociable creatures, just like we are. And if you give a mouse the opportunity to indract with another mouse, of course it will do that. But when you look at germ fe mise who have no bacteria, they're as likely to spend time with an inanimate object and their social behaviour is radically alter. We don't know right now, but it's something that we are quite aware of. In this lock down world where we're changing our social dynamics and changing everything, the question is: Are we also changing or our bacteria?