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People always hated rats. And for what, in fact, was their be in love? Repulsive, arrogant, thieving, spreading deadly creature diseases …
And only at the end of the 19th century, mankind looked at the rat with respect. And this happened because the doctors decided to use rodent for scientific purposes. As a result, for its more than a century lab rats saved a lot of human lives.
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Only thanks to them antibiotics appeared. Rats helped establish how radiation, alcohol and drugs affect a person. Experts have studied this animal, as they say, along and across and even found that the size of the rat genome is comparable to human.
Rats know how to laugh
For a long time it was believed that the main property that distinguishes a person from an animal is a sense of humor, the ability to laugh. But recently, American scientists from Ohio University have managed to prove that there is an exception to this rule – rats. Also, Dr. Allison Foote (University of Georgia) proved ability rats for introspection.
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As you know, animals adhere to habitat and leave their range only in extreme circumstances. The only exceptions are, again, rats. What drives them into the unknown distance: need, strange curiosity or instinct discoverer? ..
Rats are amazingly intuitive (remember their ability leave the sinking ship), as well as the collective mind: they can instantly transmit information to all members of your population.
The rats are not alien to the sense of beauty
And how do rats communicate with each other? In 2009 German scientists have determined that an adult rat is to communicate with relatives capable of producing up to 5 thousand different sounds.
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Scientists say that rats are not alien to the sense of beauty University of Texas During their experiment, one group newborn baby rats regularly listened to Wagner’s music, the second – rap, and the third is the noise of a vacuum cleaner. So two months passed, after which all rat pups were placed in a large common cage, on the floor of which there were keys. When you click on them activated the above sound programs. As it turned out, almost all animals preferred Wagner, units chose rap, and listen to a vacuum cleaner nobody wished.
Small is he who is in a rat’s skin
Rats have truly unlimited abilities, in particular they can be great lab assistants. In Tanzania these animals detect tuberculosis bacteria. Modern technologies are capable of check no more than 20 samples of saliva per day, and rats for a few minutes test 150 samples. In the same country, rats are engaged the search for mines, dynamite, and other explosives.
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Burmese rats “serve” at customs. They won’t miss a single one drug courier, not a single drug luggage. A similar practice was taken on armament in Russia and the USA. Bloodhound rats have large advantages over dogs because instinctively sniff everything around you, and also penetrate places that inaccessible to large animals.
With the development of such technologies, new ones are born pretentious projects. So, Americans have long been thinking about in order to connect the rat brain to implanted microcircuits. The presence of microchips in the brain will allow the operator to control the whole rat army.
Such universal warriors can be scouts behind enemy lines, they are able to arrange various sabotage on weapons, fuel and chemical depots, missile bases. Rats can also install poison capsules or bugs in headquarters premises.
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Are rats smarter and more decent than humans?
And here is another interesting experiment involving rats. It was built two labyrinths. Cheese was placed in the middle of the first, after why a rat was launched there. Inside the second maze left a hundred-dollar piece of paper intended for humans. First the bait was found by a man, but on this experiment ended.
At one point, the bait was removed from both labyrinths. By making two unsuccessful attempts, rats stopped poking around in the maze. People are continued to go there until this “stupid” experiment did not stop by force.
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The conclusion, disappointing for the person, suggests itself: having received certain experience, rats act in accordance with it – people prefer to step on a rake (endless rake dance). After receiving important information, the rats share it with their relatives – man, As a rule, he lives by his own interests. Rats always try and all keep each other, for the sake of the clan they go to self-sacrifice – most of us, alas, cannot boast of this …
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