rats Archives - Our Funny Little Site Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Watch Rescue Rats Kuzko and Kronk Drive a Mini Car https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/watch-rescue-rats-kuzko-and-kronk-drive-a-mini-car/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:34:00 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=14913 A number of studies have shown that rats are extremely intelligent and that they can acquire all sorts of skills if trained. As it turns out, one of them is driving. Instagram users were recently amazed by the video of rescue rats Kuzko and Kronk driving a mini car by themselves. It turns out that […]

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]]> A number of studies have shown that rats are extremely intelligent and that they can acquire all sorts of skills if trained. As it turns out, one of them is driving.

Instagram users were recently amazed by the video of rescue rats Kuzko and Kronk driving a mini car by themselves.

It turns out that Kuzko and Kronk received a mini car from their owner’s dad. The project was inspired by research from the University of Richmond, which showed that rats can learn how to drive tiny cars and that the experience is actually relaxing for them.

Kuzko and Kronk’s features a simple setup with three pedals that cause it to go forward, turn left, and turn right. During a period of a couple of months, rats received training through a reward system and quickly picked up the basics. 

“After only a couple months of 5-10 minute lessons each day, we’ve been blown away by how skilled Kuzko and Kronk have become at accurately turning and accelerating their cars!” the owner explained in a caption of the video that received more than one million likes.

Kuzko and Kronk’s owner later shared more of their driving adventures while noting that each rat receives 10 minutes of time at the wheel to “maximize focus.”

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]]> A Study Shows That Rats Are Ticklish https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/a-study-shows-that-rats-are-ticklish/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 06:00:58 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=8893 We tend to see rats as harmful rodents that spread diseases and it’s understandable why we rarely think they are actually cute creatures. But this 2016 study shows them in a different light — there’s one thing in which they are very like humans and it’s pretty unexpected. The study conducted in Berlin, Germany found […]

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]]> We tend to see rats as harmful rodents that spread diseases and it’s understandable why we rarely think they are actually cute creatures.

But this 2016 study shows them in a different light — there’s one thing in which they are very like humans and it’s pretty unexpected. The study conducted in Berlin, Germany found that rodents respond to tickling similarly to humans, by “producing noises and other joyful responses.”

The researchers spent three years studying the rats’ behavior when tickled. They found that the rats giggled and laughed and sometimes even chased the hand that was tickling them, looking for more.

The experiment was about more than just figuring out how rats react to tickling. The researchers hoped it would shed light on brain activity in humans that creates emotions associated with tickling. What they found is that the joy and laughter can happen when the somatosensory cortex — the area that responds to touch — is stimulated.

The main reason why rats and other rodents are often used for lab testing is that they resemble humans in their behavior and genetics.

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> rats Archives - Our Funny Little Site Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Watch Rescue Rats Kuzko and Kronk Drive a Mini Car https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/watch-rescue-rats-kuzko-and-kronk-drive-a-mini-car/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:34:00 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=14913 A number of studies have shown that rats are extremely intelligent and that they can acquire all sorts of skills if trained. As it turns out, one of them is driving. Instagram users were recently amazed by the video of rescue rats Kuzko and Kronk driving a mini car by themselves. It turns out that […]

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]]> A number of studies have shown that rats are extremely intelligent and that they can acquire all sorts of skills if trained. As it turns out, one of them is driving.

Instagram users were recently amazed by the video of rescue rats Kuzko and Kronk driving a mini car by themselves.

It turns out that Kuzko and Kronk received a mini car from their owner’s dad. The project was inspired by research from the University of Richmond, which showed that rats can learn how to drive tiny cars and that the experience is actually relaxing for them.

Kuzko and Kronk’s features a simple setup with three pedals that cause it to go forward, turn left, and turn right. During a period of a couple of months, rats received training through a reward system and quickly picked up the basics. 

“After only a couple months of 5-10 minute lessons each day, we’ve been blown away by how skilled Kuzko and Kronk have become at accurately turning and accelerating their cars!” the owner explained in a caption of the video that received more than one million likes.

Kuzko and Kronk’s owner later shared more of their driving adventures while noting that each rat receives 10 minutes of time at the wheel to “maximize focus.”

The post Watch Rescue Rats Kuzko and Kronk Drive a Mini Car appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

]]> A Study Shows That Rats Are Ticklish https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/a-study-shows-that-rats-are-ticklish/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 06:00:58 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=8893 We tend to see rats as harmful rodents that spread diseases and it’s understandable why we rarely think they are actually cute creatures. But this 2016 study shows them in a different light — there’s one thing in which they are very like humans and it’s pretty unexpected. The study conducted in Berlin, Germany found […]

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]]> We tend to see rats as harmful rodents that spread diseases and it’s understandable why we rarely think they are actually cute creatures.

But this 2016 study shows them in a different light — there’s one thing in which they are very like humans and it’s pretty unexpected. The study conducted in Berlin, Germany found that rodents respond to tickling similarly to humans, by “producing noises and other joyful responses.”

The researchers spent three years studying the rats’ behavior when tickled. They found that the rats giggled and laughed and sometimes even chased the hand that was tickling them, looking for more.

The experiment was about more than just figuring out how rats react to tickling. The researchers hoped it would shed light on brain activity in humans that creates emotions associated with tickling. What they found is that the joy and laughter can happen when the somatosensory cortex — the area that responds to touch — is stimulated.

The main reason why rats and other rodents are often used for lab testing is that they resemble humans in their behavior and genetics.

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