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Stick that rat outside in a wild rat colony, and we'll see how well "everything normal rats can do except trim their toenails" works out.


The cool thing about Whitslaw's work is that it focused on natural behaviors (rather than like...a rotorod test).

I don't think he released them into the wild (would be a tough experiment with 80s tech), but there are a bunch of studies of their interactions with conspecifics. They can mate[0], though less successfully than controls, but playfight a bit better than they do[1].

[0] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1983-29790-001 [1] https://doi.org/10.1159/000114124




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