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I would imagine that the sudden appearance of food and new environment elements would set the mind of any animal in a "run around and explore" mode, especially

• ars 12y ago
  The wheel was there for 3 years.
  • lawlessone 12y ago
    And one of them ran for up to 18 minutes.
    • rando289 12y ago
      2 wheels, used by 200,000 animals, which has got to be a typo, cuz thats on average 137 animals per hour.
      • kryptiskt 12y ago
        2 wheels => 100000 animals/wheel 1000 days => 100 animals/wheel*day
      • barrkel 12y ago
        2 wheels, 3 years, 200,000 animals is an average of 3.8 per hour.
      • Someone 12y ago
        200,000 triggers of the animal sensors, 12,000 times that the wheel started spinning. Also: the researchers hypnotize that the slugs ended up in the wheel by accident. Some mice returned multiple times; that's a fairly good indicator that they found some benefit from it (need not be that they liked it; it's fairly easy to make up perfect direct benefits. For example, it might be that fleas jump of a mouse if it runs in a wheel for a while.
• Houshalter 12y ago
  Do animals in cages run only after being fed? Do animals run around after being fed in general?
  • koralatov 12y ago
    Based of my experience of gerbils and hamsters, there doesn't seem to be a link between feeding and playing activity, but they were always well-fed so that probably doesn't reflect anything like a state o nature. My two cats are definitely more active when they've not recently eaten. When their food bowls are empty, they run around and play much more --- `hunger' tends to stimulate activity in them. Once they're fed, especially with something they really like and will gorge on, they tend to lie around and sleep after eating.
    • bkurtz13 12y ago
      My understanding is that cats do this because the relatively short length of their digestive tract requires them to lie dormant for a long period to digest their food.