This fruit makes mice go bananas. Now psychologists have a reason why - Inverse


5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Elana Spivack

A study shows that the urine of pregnant or lactating mice has a compound in it that creates a stress response in males, and also that bananas have that same compound.

If you dig into Freudian psychology, you can probably scrape together a more or less convincing reason why male mice cower at the sight of a banana. Fortunately, nobody needs to do that because beh… [+3073 chars]

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