Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice

A recent study pub­lished in Evol­u­tion Let­ters invest­ig­ates beha­vi­or­al flex­ib­il­ity by com­par­ing bur­row­ing beha­vi­or across three spe­cies of deer mice with dif­fer­ent social sys­tems. The accom­pa­ny­ing video abstract by one of the study’s authors, Ariana Kam, explains: 

Cov­er image cred­it: USFWS Mountain-Prairie