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What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse (defector.com)
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Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mouse in a paper cup, lays the cup on its side in the grass, and takes off the lid. “When the…

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[-] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Very interesting, especially the part about agency. I lived in a country that was very repressed, that the vast majority of the population felt there was nothing they could do to change their plight. It affected their mindset and culture in profound ways.

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