What’s in the backpack?!
between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
sounds like it’s a gps transponder
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Probably something other than gps, because that doesnt work when under a bunch of rubble.
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
C4
SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Some sort of signal emitter maybe? So the rescue team knows to look where the hero rat triggered it.
bampop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I do hope it has a little speaker that says “don’t worry human, help is on its way” in a cute high pitched voice.
IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its little lunch and a sweater the doc packed in case it’s cold.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
My guess would be an accelerometer. Then you can plot out the mouses path and get the location of the person
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Cheese
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They also can detect mines and have been highly successful in saving countless limbs/lives in that field too(no pun intended). apopo.org/?v=0b3b97fa6688
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Everyone needs to consider donating to them!
I have a monthly donation set up with them and get a monthly report how many mines a rat managed to find
They were also hit quite hard by the usaid shutdown, so they really can use any help they can get
Also: !petrats@lemmy.world needs more activity
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Thank you for writing more about APOPO. My wife and I don’t gift each other things anymore. We choose a nonprofit to donate to on Christmas, anniversary, or birthdays. APOPO will be on my list.
Really cool.
spinne@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thanks for the link. This is really cool work! Search and pre-rescue rats are a small part of what Apopo does: they mostly do unexploded mine clearance and tuberculosis detection! 😳
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I love this statue! It’s in Novosibirsk. I’ve always wanted to go there and see it in real life. Once the war is finally over and Russia is free again I’ll pay a visit to that little rodent.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Russia is free again
I really wish that will happen as well, but when has Russia actually been free?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That is a mouse.
Most research is in mouse models.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They should train them to bring down a little can on a string so you can talk to them 😂
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months ago
I mean, you joke, but you couod probabky kit them out with a small Bluetooth earbud to pass off.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Could you imagine? You’re trapped after an earthquake, and convinced you’re going to die, and a little rat comes up, and you begin to get scared he’s going to chew on your face, but he hands you a Bluetooth earpiece, and scurries off to get his treat. You pop it in your ear, and your rescuers are on the other end!
I’d want to meet that rat when it was over. Give him an entire granola bar.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Me in collapsed building, seeing a rat with a backpack:
HOLY SHIT; NIMH IS REAL!?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
… Yes nimh is real. It’s based on the real nimh!
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 months ago
NIMH IS REAL!?
Ironically yes it was!
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m sorry but “rat backpack”? You should have said rat pack as part of a rat patrol.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t get the hate on rats. This little guy is adorable.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Clearly you’ve never been mugged by one in Chicago. We grow em extra big here.
infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Cattail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now if only we could get that rat past Israeli blockade 🇵🇸
claxax@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Took me a sec to get that the #womaninstem wasnt referring to the rat lol
postnataldrip@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gotta love a heroic snotpest
hotspur@hexbear.net 2 months ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Same organization and same rats!
hotspur@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Oh cool didn’t realize! They are rat-maxxing
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
My cats, in the meantime: train themselves to know when humans dispense food, everything else be damned!
maplesaga@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was considering own one, but then I read they continuously piss everywhere.
ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Kind of true, but it’s more like an ant scent marking. They know this is a place that’s safe (rats have been here). With good absorbent natural substrate in the cage, and wiping down their play area if needed, it’s mostly unnoticeable. I like to compare it to a person needing to change their t-shirt every day, probably not a deal-breaker for interacting, unless you don’t clean for way too long.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s not “kind of true”, they mark scent with urine. And they’ll mark all their cage mates too, and that includes their human.
But yes, rats are tiny and don’t pee on your house much, that’s true. They also absolutely have bladders (what a weird myth that is) and almost always potty train themselves to do most of their urinating in certain spots when not marking scent.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 months ago
#Hero Snot Pests
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 months ago
LD50 (Rat)
drewaustin@piefed.ca 2 months ago
I want that job!
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
I’d start wondering if I was dead and hell was a RL Disney remake.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Image en.wikipedia.org/…/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mou…
The mice get all the good statues.