2013年1月29日

老鼠訓練師2

這個是延續上次老鼠訓練師文章,前陣子一直在看有什麼好玩的可以訓練這幾隻老鼠,不過我不是很努力就是了。

現在最大的成就,應該就是訓練他們跳手圈啦。以下的影片有用LED燈吸引牠們去抓,還有讓牠們爬上籠頂倒吊著抓燈,還有讓牠們主動上到手掌,最後就是鑽我手圍起來的圈圈了。




未來目標是訓練牠們玩丟球的遊戲,而訓練的方式則是會參考此頻道
The World's Smartest Mice

作者的FB是http://www.facebook.com/smartmice,裡頭有很多訓練的影片可以看,或者要直接詢問作者也可以。

另外值得一提的現象是,那兩隻白老鼠,前幾天一直出現騎乘動作。如果是狗的話,可能是用以顯示地位不同,但我不知道老鼠也有這樣的行為啊。


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後來我用用"Humping" or "riding behavior"來查相關的研究,是有看到一篇

Activities associated with conflict behaviour in mice


The dominant mice spent significantly more time in social grooming, social sniffing, genital sniffing and food control than did the subordinate mice. Humping and tail lashing also were exhibited significantly more by the dominants. Significantly more tail lashing occurred in pair contacts when fighting, usually accompanied by attacks and chases, took place than when only attacks and chases occurred. Correlations between latency and time spent in conflict behavior and in social sniffing were significant.

裡頭是有說dominant的小鼠會有humping(騎乘)的行為,不過那篇的研究對象是雄鼠。可我這裡的兩隻是母鼠,這樣是否也有同樣的意義呢?