Rats drive tiny cars to feel less stress

[Wyatt earp]

Well scientist just figured out what we knew all along liberals are rats with their stupid tiny electric clown cars...




Rats drive little plastic cars around a lab in the US
Learning to drive small cars helps rats feel less stressed, scientists found. Researchers at the University of Richmond in the US taught a group of 17 rats how to drive little plastic cars, in exchange for bits of cereal.21 hours ago

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[Wyatt earp]

This reminds me scientist are shocked to find out monkeys eat rats.

Monkeys Have Been Caught Devouring Rats at a Palm Oil Plantation in Malaysia

BY MIKE MCRAE

OCTOBER 24, 2019


To the pig-tailed macaque, there's nothing better than sweet fruit plucked from a sprawling palm oil plantation. Except maybe fresh rat. That's good eating too, apparently.


Researchers have found that far from being a pest themselves, monkeys could be welcome guests at Malaysian palm oil plantations, more than making up for the few fruit they steal by keeping down the numbers of a far more serious threat in the form of rodents.


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For the past six years, scientists from Malaysia and Germany have kept a close eye on two populations of southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in Malaysia's Segari Melintang Forest Reserve.


Naturally, the monkeys spent a good deal of time chilling in the palm oil plantation that surrounded the reserve, which made up roughly a third of their home range.


Farmers might not be happy with the intrusion, but for the macaque, the palms were the equivalent of a shopping mall - an ugly monoculture intruding on beautiful surrounds, but with cheap food.


The macaques were spending several hours a day in the plantations, a period that made up nearly half of their overall feeding time.


It didn't come as much of a surprise that they were busy stuffing their faces with fruit from the palm trees. What was a bit of a shock was the main course – a whole bunch of rats.


"I was stunned when I first observed that macaques feed on rats in plantations," says Nadine Ruppert, an ecologist from the Universiti Sains Malaysia.

 

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[QuickHitCurepon]

Great, now they can have a rat race.

 

[TNHarley]

DemocRATS like tiny cars too