The Capital Letter - by BerlinBear
That's gotta be one of the funnyest things I've heard. I sometimes wonder who thinks up these experiments.
I'm a big fan of rats too- and the story comes as no surprise! I don't know why people are obsessed with killing things though.
Your cat should be a rat fan too. BTW change your blogmap reference to Trier!
How come I'm always reading about rats being clever, and yet when I babysat a couple of rats for a few months they were dead stupid? Funny, but stupid.
When Mildew escaped and ran away from home, we found her after three days outside the front door, starving and miserable. She had no survival skills AT ALL. If she'd been on that island she would have died of chocolate deprivation.
Spot was an alcoholic, given half a chance, and would get ridiculously drunk and try to do impossible things. (Mildew wouldn't touch the stuff.)
They only ever did one clever thing, and that was when we introduced our new kitten to them and they ignored her COMPLETELY for five minutes as she pounced on their tails, stalked them, made swipes at them, and generally tried to get them to behave the way rats are supposed to. They pretended she didn't exist until she got bored and stopped, then walked past her and bit her tail.
The kitten shot straight up into the air. The kitten also never bothered them again. But I'm not convinced it was really clever. I suspect they mistook her tail for something edible. Fluffy chocolate, perhaps.
Reading the report the other day, I couldn't help but think... "well, duh!"
"Rats are better swimmers than we thought..." Well, apparently, they're quite a bit smarter than the "researchers", too!
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