between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough
Submitted 4 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 3 days 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 3 days ago
Russia is free again
I really wish that will happen as well, but when has Russia actually been free?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
That is a mouse.
Most research is in mouse models.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
What’s in the backpack?!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 days ago
sounds like it’s a gps transponder
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Probably something other than gps, because that doesnt work when under a bunch of rubble.
CluckN@lemmy.world 4 days ago
C4
SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Some sort of signal emitter maybe? So the rescue team knows to look where the hero rat triggered it.
bampop@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
Its little lunch and a sweater the doc packed in case it’s cold.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days 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 4 days ago
Cheese
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 4 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days 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! 😳
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Me in collapsed building, seeing a rat with a backpack:
HOLY SHIT; NIMH IS REAL!?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
… Yes nimh is real. It’s based on the real nimh!
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 days ago
NIMH IS REAL!?
Ironically yes it was!
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
They should train them to bring down a little can on a string so you can talk to them 😂
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 days ago
I mean, you joke, but you couod probabky kit them out with a small Bluetooth earbud to pass off.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days 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.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’m sorry but “rat backpack”? You should have said rat pack as part of a rat patrol.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t get the hate on rats. This little guy is adorable.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
Clearly you’ve never been mugged by one in Chicago. We grow em extra big here.
infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 days ago
Cattail@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Now if only we could get that rat past Israeli blockade 🇵🇸
claxax@hexbear.net 4 days ago
Took me a sec to get that the #womaninstem wasnt referring to the rat lol
postnataldrip@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Gotta love a heroic snotpest
hotspur@hexbear.net 4 days ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Same organization and same rats!
hotspur@hexbear.net 3 days ago
Oh cool didn’t realize! They are rat-maxxing
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 days ago
My cats, in the meantime: train themselves to know when humans dispense food, everything else be damned!
maplesaga@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was considering own one, but then I read they continuously piss everywhere.
ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days ago
#Hero Snot Pests
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 4 days ago
LD50 (Rat)
drewaustin@piefed.ca 3 days ago
I want that job!
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
I’d start wondering if I was dead and hell was a RL Disney remake.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Image en.wikipedia.org/…/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mou…
The mice get all the good statues.