I saw a great documentary on TV about sleep (Mysteries of sleep by PBS America) which stuck with me and made me want to watch it again. One part explained how the amygdalla stores information or files during the day and then during the night as you sleep gives the files to a central part of the brain for dispersion and so freeing the amygala again for the next day. I
Theres the full sleep video on youtube, Im at the part of the animals sleeping.
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Ahh, they torture a rat, Im off that crap.
Why dont they shock themselves to do their test? what a bunch of……………….
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There’s a lovely you tube video of Popcorn the blind rat, I tried to reblog it but it didn’t work. There are all kinds of animals being bred for one thing or another. I’ve been horrified at the enormous slaughter of chickens at Christmas. 🐀
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Yep i found it again , it was repeated on PBS America channel as part of a science series by Nova I think. I found out that white rats are live exclusively in the laboratory and are rare in the wild.
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I found the Popcorn video
I think they call it “popcorning” when rats hop around in joy.
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thank you AuAu
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