Humans are able to recognize instantly a bed in a foreign hotel room, despite the fact that this bed may be totally different from the one they are used to at home. A recent study to be published in the Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences shows that mice can also do the same, implying that they can handle abstract thoughts – a faculty so far unknown in rodents. Regardless of the shape or material, they will always choose a nesting place roughly the size of their body. Mice and men seem to have more in common than we previously thought.

Source: New Scientist