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Doesn't read like sound science when all of my 6 pet rats yawn longer than I do.
by emptysongglass 5y ago
Doesn't read like sound science when all of my 6 pet rats yawn longer than I do.
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- KMag 5y agoRead The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and post back here. Minor spoiler: mice (okay, not rats) are projections into our universe of immensely powerful trans-dimensional beings, or something like that.
- emptysongglass 5y agoMakes sense as I really seem to be their pet most of the time or worse a glorified janitor: the "poo shoveler".
- sebmellen 5y agoScared me for a moment there, I’ve killed upwards of 40 rats during this pandemic (outside). They seem to have gone rampant with the onset of COVID.
- donkarma 5y agoWait until you see the mouse plague in Australia
- exporectomy 5y agoI don't think they found absolute brain mass was correlated with yawn duration. They scaled brain mass in some complicated way that might put rats above humans for all I know: "we calculated residual brain mass measures from a phylogenetically controlled linear regression of the respective brain measure on body mass"
- true_religion 5y agoThere is a chart: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02019-y/figures/2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02019-y/figures/2 Humans are above rats in this chart in both yawn duration and brain mass. Rats are above dogs though.