If an exercise wheel sits in a forest, will mice run on it?
如果把跑轮放在森林里,小鼠会上去跑步吗?
Every once in a while, science asks a simple question and gets a straightforward answer.
科学时常会提出一个简单的问题,然后得到一个直截了当的答案。
In this case, yes, they will. And not only mice, but also rats, shrews, frogs and slugs.
这个问题的答案是,会。不仅小鼠会,大鼠、鼩鼱、青蛙和蛞蝓都会。
True, the frogs did not exactly run, and the slugs probably ended up on the wheel by accident, but the mice clearly enjoyed it. That, scientists said, means that wheel-running is not a neurotic behavior found only in caged mice.
当然,青蛙算不上在跑,蛞蝓可能也是偶然来到跑轮上的,但是小鼠明显是真的喜欢跑轮。科学家表示,这说明在跑轮上跑步并不是关在笼子里的老鼠才有的神经性举动。
They like the wheel.
它们喜欢跑轮。
Two researchers in the Netherlands did an experiment that it seems nobody had tried before. They placed exercise wheels outdoors in a yard garden and in an area of dunes, and monitored the wheels with motion detectors and automatic cameras.
荷兰的两名研究员做了一项似乎从来没人做过的实验。他们在室外的院子和一块沙地里放置了一些跑轮,并通过运动检测器和自动相机对这些跑轮进行监测。
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