Mice also know how to cough like people

Although humans may not hear it, mice are still coughing as usual, and this finding promises to open a new way of fighting against cough in humans.

Rats are always the ideal creature in laboratories, because they grow fast, reproduce a lot but are small enough to grow in cages, allowing experts to study many cases at the same time.

The mouse is the perfect animal to experiment with.

Therefore, mice are often used in projects to prepare pharmaceuticals for humans, for example, rats pout when pain, just like humans, and experiments are based on their facial expression analysis. Can help test new painkillers.

For a long time, whether or not mice can cough is always a mystery to scientists.

Recently, experts from Guangzhou Medical University in China conducted a small experiment, which blew capsaicin, created a spicy taste in chili, into a cage containing 40 mice.

Each animal is placed in the machine to allow measurements of body volume changes to detect inhalation and exhalation movements in mice.

Experts also add tiny microphones in the hope of recording the smallest sound emitted from the subject, according to the PLOS ONE report.

After observation, the team identified a number of mice with a cough.

Previously, mice that were detected could 'sing' ultrasonic frequency tunes, and laugh when tickled.