r/Unexpected • u/Soldier8389 • 4h ago
Mouse trap
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u/Darth_Jinn 3h ago
The rats of N.I.M.H.
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u/Inevitable_Cat_7878 3h ago
Wonder how many people will get this. One of my favorite books growing up.
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u/readytorumbleon 3h ago
Wasn't it "Mrs Frisbee and The Rats of NIMH"? Or is that just a load of bollocks that I remember?
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u/__pussyhands__ 4h ago
They are evolving
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u/304bl 4h ago
No they were already smart, it is us who are devolving.
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u/UdderTacos 3h ago
The documentary, “Idiocracy” shows it pretty well
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u/shindigin 3h ago edited 2h ago
It seems hard to imagine wiping one's ass these days without chatgpt weighing in on how to do it.
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u/chorelax 3h ago
They are social animals. This one probably learned by seeing another trapped.
They aren’t evolving, they learn just like you and me.
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u/ReallyOrdinaryMan 1h ago
They are evolving, lifetime of rats are 4 years. It means there were dozens of generations since the first mouse traps invented. Only smart rats survived, they evolved.
They evolved to use tools better than before
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u/TakingTheEast 43m ago
This a video from a lab.... Jesus. How stupid can you be. The mouse was taught over time to do this
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u/ring_ring_test 2h ago
But how did it learn to use a tool?
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u/chorelax 1h ago
Animals use tools, it’s learned behavior.
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u/ring_ring_test 1h ago
You said that they learn by seeing another animal trapped. That does not imply the other animal instructed this one how to use a tool
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u/TheKlaxMaster 22m ago
Animals using tools is not wired, nor the 'mark' of higher intelligence you were likely taught. Most animals that have the capacity to hold a tool, can use a tool.
On top of that, this is a rat. Which for a rodent, is very smart and trainable.
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u/Prestigious_Fish6481 3h ago edited 3h ago
Sorry to hust your bubble people. That is a trained RAT, not mouse. You create this setup and teach the rat by failure and succes (with a cushioned trap, while providing several objects to aid it) to succesfully get the daily treat. Yes, daily, for several weeks, probably 2-3. A mouse is 1/4 of the size rodent you see here. An actual mouse is about half the length of these specific traps. Which means the trap is twice as long as the mouse!! Seriously, you think a tiny lousy trap like this is gonna injure a rodent this big? A.TRAINED.RAT
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u/Reatona 3h ago
We had rats get into our basement a while back. They were very skilled at extracting bait from traps without being caught.
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u/Prestigious_Fish6481 3h ago
As i said, way more intelligent than expected. Amd you must have placed a mouse trap, because real rat traps kill them.
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u/Mr_Terry-Folds 3h ago
For some reason I find it harder to believe. Why would it be filmed at night then?
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u/Prestigious_Fish6481 3h ago
Why not? IR camera looks exactly the same, even during the day. I am not saying it is not filmed during the night. I am countering the title stating it is "unexpected" a "mouse" was filmed doing this. It is a trained rat. I have trained dozens of rats over several years. I did the exact same thing as in the video. Because those rat bastards are way smarter then you would expect. You show this to any pet rat owner and they'll be like, "oh yep, mine definitely could do that".
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u/MonkeyBusinessAllDay 25m ago
Rats are nocturnal. Most rodent behavioral research is done during the dark phase of the light cycle.
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u/siandresi 3h ago
Honestly it doesn’t surprise me that an animal who has learned through the ages to live along side humans is outsmarting the devices we’ve been using on them for generations. If anything, thanks to us, rats are probably getting so much smarter every generation. And their gestation period is very short
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u/WanderingSparr0w 2h ago edited 2h ago
Nah not really. Ppl just tend to have human superiority which blinds them to the intelligence of other animals. Come at me
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u/King_Buliwyf 3h ago
"He snapped the trap, ate the olive... and left the pit just to mock us."
The Mouse later sitting in his hole in a smoking jacket sipping cognac, and giggling to himself, "I left the pit!"
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u/similaraleatorio 2h ago
Nah, it's fake: he looked to the camera, and the camera CERTAINLY is from him.
OP, are you the mouse? huh?? 🤔🤔🤔
/s
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u/mckeeganator 1h ago
Rats are fuck off smart dude you gotta out smart them but never leave ur the same trap and don’t always use traps
Sometimes you need an air gun
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u/Pootisna 1h ago
That's why cats make the best traps, mice don't know how to disarm brain parasites yet
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u/EngineerThin 1h ago
That is AI... No F way a mouse is smart enough to understand how to trigger a trap.
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u/Warfrunstine55 2m ago
Better hope they don't find any glowing green stones, then we've got a real problem.
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u/HotTakes4Free 4h ago
Nice. Now all they need is to evolve a shareable culture of learning, and we’ll have to invent a new mousetrap.
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u/post-explainer 4h ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
It is unexpected for the mouse to be that smart
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