Actually not all rats are afraid of cats. I had a lot of pet rats and some cats. While the two cats are mostly afraid and respectful of the rats, about 1/4 of the rats had no problem co-existing with the cats. Like, they saw the cat as a rat and acted like it, not afraid or anything, while another rat peed herself because she was so scared of the cats.
Has anyone wondered that maybe rats are the ones actually conducting experiments on scientists? I read about it in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-
I’m guessing Henrietta Lacks, since she’s probably got a bone to pick with the research community as a whole. I bet she’s got some special accommodation with the universe to be brought back constantly as a stream of lab animals, just to fuck with the data.
wholesome animal experimentation. So cute and wholesome how they keep them in shitty cages, feed them a bland diet, and kill them the moment the experiment is over.
I am not sure if you're being deliberately contrarian to protect cognitive dissonance, or just wildly ignorant of how studies are conducted.
In the most literal sense a study is made of a battery of experiments that are each run across a series of tests. This is also just "an experiment" colloquially since they're all testing the same area. They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).
I have stolen lab rats marked for death, I know what I'm talking about.
Hate to break it to you... 42 didn't make it the first study. In the second study they just named three troublemaker 42 again.... And he also didn't make it. After a study, all those rats just go to a big farm to live out their lives in peace. Not.
It's no accident they call him 42. It's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. In it the lab mice were running the experiment on the humans by sometimes running their mazes differently.