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[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 37 points 18 hours ago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432819311763

It's about stress levels, and how rats who were in control of the vehicles were less stress than rats who were just passengers.

[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 14 hours ago

I feel like we don't need to be mass breeding animals for this. To my knowledge we mainly use rats to test things we don't want to put humans through, but I've heard enough backseat driving to solve this on my own without the use of rats

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

I don't think the rats were especially bred for this.

It's more likely that existing lab rats got a bumper car break :3

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