My point is even without sentience, the relationship is more akin to farmer and cattle, than hunter and prey.
OK, but my reply was mostly to your "Why boldness?". The immune system of a mouse, while certainly not impenetrable, can be difficult to attack, and boldness might just have been the
Fair. I can’t think of an experiment that would determine if ‘boldness’ is an easy hack vs symbiotic sweet spot. It’s all speculation on my part.
part that happened to be most easy to attack. While I don't necessarily accept your suggestion that your other "strategies" would be better, they may have been harder to implement.
Also I'd like to point out that I spent a lot of time in my youth studying a mouse called Mickey, and it was often seen with a magnifying glass, negating visual impairment.
I recall another mouse named Jerry who’s bold traits seemed to consistently keep him out of a feline stomach. Go figure.
A very reasonable hypothesis! But I'd like to advice caution before a proper Scientific analysis has been performed to see whether said boldness is the actual cause and so on.
A double blind experiment might shed some light on this: Both the cat and the mouse is given a blindfold. To make it simpler a man named Occam might lend the cat a razor as weapon
Now I think about it, I also studied this mouse called Jerry, and I do not remember many other dangers it was subject to, beyond a fat woman standing on a chair screaming.
Maybe an odd sleeping dog. Either way, if this is the common situations for mice, boldness should favor the fortune, or was that the cat.
