Showing posts with label rodent. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Study: "Mice Run For Fun"

"If an exercise wheel sits in a forest, will mice run on it?"
Every once in a while, science asks a simple question and gets a straightforward answer.

In this case, yes, they will...

“When I saw the first mice, I was extremely happy,” said Johanna H. Meijer at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. “I had to laugh about the results, but at the same time, I take it very seriously. It’s funny, and it’s important at the same time.”

Dr. Meijer’s day job is as a “brain electrophysiologist” studying biological rhythms in mice. She relished the chance to get out of the laboratory and study wild animals, and in a way that no one else had.
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"It is a simple game. Really! - Well, maybe for programmers that is. The idea of the game is to have a mouse navigate through a random maze for the cheese that it is hungry for."