#trained rats

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Does anybody else rewind TV/movies in order to watch the trained rats do their tricks again?

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Leaders Motivate Teams With Norms

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Nicole Brandon reported that researchers at the University of Bern goodwill Switzerland trained rats so that deliver food for one another by pulling a stick. (1) The researchers then dispersed the animals into two groups: dexterous rats received food from other animals, whereas other rats did not. Researchers found that the rats that had received help were more likely to do the stick being €unfamiliar' animals (i.e., strangers). In isolated words, this was not the typical "superego scarification my back, I'll blare yours.€ This was "if anyone scratches my back, I'll dig someone else's back." Aristotle stated that children learn by imitation. So do people and rats. <\p>

Here's how you can give origin to positive norms on your reserves, which lead up a culture of amperage, accountability, and results.<\p>

SHADE facilitated an offsite meeting for a group of leaders from a public agency. My pre-work interviews indicated that she had a little dysfunctional norms that were bad productivity and increasing subversion. To manage these issues, I recommended to the Executive Director that we establish positive norms so create the culture she hear desired. She agreed. Here's an fret NOTHING ELSE facilitated during our retreat: Created a delusiveness statement that persons bought into. (It's already on their stationary.) Identified values that support the poem statement. Brainstormed a list of the behaviors that they need to observe in order till be sure that each valorize is alive and well on their team. To generate this incline as to stated behaviors, we brainstormed the answers to this motif: imagine you're on a twosome that does (fill-in-the-blank with a value) capably, what armipotence that look like? What behaviors might she see? The managers then took these values and norms towards each of their own teams to be harvested. <\p>

This is a simple, yet fundamental approach to creating a photogravure team culture. How surprised will you be present when your team starts exhibiting the specific behaviors that obtain to business results? Let me know what you think and how it goes.<\p>

Keep on stretching, Dave Nicole Branon: Pay It Forward, Subtle American Psychic apparatus, October\November passage 9, 2007. <\p>

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This Person is the Best

I found a video of trained rats on youtube from a user named  NanaBorderCollie, The video can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2rxtWu_FM

Some people said very ignorant and mean things about them and their rats. This is one of the responses from  NanaBorderCollie to  Alphonse_99

In response to Alphonse_99's comment (which I am unable to reply to): People have no reason to be mad at you after reading your comment, because virtually nothing you have written in it is true.  I am utterly flabbergasted that you label the information contained in your comment as "fact".  If you are interested in the true facts, allow me to provide them for you and elucidate this topic which you patently have not researched.  Even if you are not interested, I will still share them here for others who may happen upon your nonsensical comment. Firstly, you list hamsters alongside rats as though they are a similar species with homogeneous roles in the ecosystem.  In the wild, hamsters are found exclusively in the Eastern Hemisphere and some species, such as the Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus), are rare in the wild.  In fact, the species was thought to be extinct prior to the late 1990's until they were discovered during two expeditions conducted in 1997 and 1999.  Referring to the species as a pest is absolutely ludicrous, since these elusive and solitary animals are not only uncommon in the wild, but they spend much of their time underground.  Any hamsters that you have seen are captive-born animals which were introduced into the pet trade in the year 1937.  These pet hamsters are certainly not "pests" since they are not found in the wild. You question whether humanity needs rats, but in truth it is our planet that does as these rodents have a vital role in the ecosystem as consumers, and some species of rats such as Giant pouched rats have an important role as seed dispersers.  They are also a primary food source for many carnivorous species and simply removing these animals you call "pests" from the planet would create a serious imbalance in the ecosystem and it would be deleterious to biodiversity. Regarding your list of diseases that you claim rats can carry... Your veracity and credibility was completely lost the moment you listed the bubonic plague.  Bubonic plague is transmitted through fleas, not rats.  Furthermore, it is only after the animal dies that the fleas become dangerous to other species (such as humans) since, while the animal is alive, the fleas feed off of that animal.  Once the host is deceased, the fleas begin searching for a new host to feed from, thus spreading the disease.  People are at risk when handling or visiting an area with recently DEAD rats carrying plague-infected fleas, not live rats.  A study conducted by French scientist Paul-Louis Simond confirmed that the plague is spread after the infected fleas transfer from rats or other rodents which had died less than 24 hours prior.  People residing in China and India have stated that plague outbreaks only occurred after numbers of dead rats were found.  The only other way to contract bubonic plague (although extremely rare) is through contact with body fluids or tissue from an infected animal, but again, this animal must be dead.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that domestic dogs and cats can also carry plague-infected fleas and transmit them to their owners, just as the rats did during the Black Death.  These fleas, which are carried by rodents and carnivores, transmit septicemic plague (infecting the blood), which is even more deadly than bubonic plague.  They are largely responsible for the near-extinction of the Black-Footed Ferret. You write, "[Rats] carry so many different diseases..." to prelude your list.  Certainly, rats CAN carry a number of different diseases, but any species can including humans.  By your logic, people should avoid exiting their homes and coming into contact with other humans, lest they be carrying some sort of deadly disease or virus.  According to the news and media, many human beings can be carriers of the Ebola virus.  Does this mean you should avoid all human contact because people are capable of harbouring this deadly virus? As well, the number one vector for pet-related zoonotic diseases is the domestic cat, with domestic dogs being a close second.  Focusing just on cats, these animals (which I doubt you have issues with) are capable of transmitting leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, Q fever, cryptospiridium, salmonellosis, giardiasis, toxocariasis, anthrax, cowpox, e-coli, rabies, bartonellosis (also called "cat scratch disease"), the H1N1  and H5N1 viruses, methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), trypanosama cruzi (Chaga's disease), dermatophytosis, sporotrichosis, campylobacteriosis, listeriosis, entamoeba histolytica, pasteurellosis, yersiniosis, rickettsia felis, and tularemia to name a very mere few.  Some of these such as rabies and listeriosis are fatal in humans.  It was also reported in March, 2014 that a feline located in England successfully transmitted tuberculosis on to its humans, marking the first documented case of feline/human TB transfer in history.  And so, even if experts tell you that cats do not transfer certain zoonoses does not mean it cannot happen.  This, of course, makes the number of potential zoonoses transmissible by felines listless. In your list, you include, "allergic reaction to the people [the rat] bites".  It is completely paralogical to include this in your list.  There are many people across the globe who are anaphylacticly allergic to peanuts... far more than those who are allergic to rat bites.  Should the peanut (Arachis hypogaea) be brought to extinction, then?  Or what about domestic cats?  Humans do not even need to be bitten by a cat in order to exhibit symptoms of allergic reaction.  Since the primary allergen produced by cats is located in their saliva, it is even more hazardous for these people should they be bitten by a cat they are allergic to.  Domestic cats are far more likely to bite than the domestic rat, and cat allergies are reportedly the most prevalent pet allergy in the United States, making your risible statement ("allergic reaction to the people if it bites") a significantly greater concern with domestic cats, not rats. You continue to write, "They are lazy and just want to eat unless you train them for a very long time."  This statement may be reworded as, "If rats are trained for a very long time, they are no longer lazy or just want to eat."  However you choose to frame your preposterous statement, it is with resounding accuracy that these words mirror your patent intellectual bankruptcy on this species.  To address your original phrasing of the statement, "They are lazy and just want to eat...", this once again may be directly applied to the classic domestic cat.  In fact, some domestic dogs suit your description, and many children do as well.  How you arrived at the conclusion that extensive training somehow eliminates an animal's intrinsic desire to eat and rest is beyond my reasoning capacity, primarily because it is completely void of logic.  Moreover, rats do not JUST want to eat and be lazy (many rats, especially females, are far from lazy).  Rats thrive on interaction with their humans, and their level of loyalty and affection is tantamount to that of a dog.  Unless you have experienced the devout loyalty and love of a rat, you are in no position whatsoever to make statements on this topic. You conclude the aforementioned statement with, "if you have time for that lmao", in reference to the extensive training you claim is necessary to prevent rats from being "lazy" and "just wanting to eat".  This insinuates that, since some people may not have time for this training that isn't necessary (you claim it is, but it isn't) to prevent lazy, hungry rats (as if this is some terrible thing), nobody should keep rats as pets.  Using this logic, we could also say that since some people do not have time for raising children and training them extensively to not be "lazy" and "just wanting to eat", having children should be illegal.  This is as far from logical as your statement listed as #2 is. For number 3, you write, "They will still bite the owner even if the owner feed/pet it".  I have been keeping rats for many years and currently have both domestic rats and wild rats (Rattus Norvegicus) as pets.  As a provincially licensed wildlife rehabilitator and professional studio animal trainer, I have an enormous amount of experience working with a broad spectrum of both domestic and wild animal species.  Of all the species I have worked with (and I have worked with MANY different animal species), rats are actually the LEAST likely to bite (especially domestic rats), and to this day I have never, ever been bitten by a rat.  As prey animals, rats typically run away to escape harm rather than confront.  Your statement would be better applied to other animal species, including domestic cats and even some domestic dogs. And lastly, you write, "They will bite your wall in your houses until it have a hole."  I, and thousands of other rat owners across the globe, keep my pet rats in my home.  Yet, all of my walls are perfectly intact and my rats have never even so much as shown interest in what you claim they will do.  Your statement is too absurd for me to waste my time nitpicking it. "So to all of you rat lovers don't you find yourselves creepy/stupid for adoring or having a pet like that?"  No... no we don't.  We are proud of our pets and the close relationships we share with these rodents, as any animal caregiver is.  We are not easily deceived by myths and "facts" (which are not facts at all) such as those which you have saturated your comment in.  We know the truth, and we are more than willing to share it with the public.  I do educational work with my rats and I have yet to meet a person who has continued to dislike the species after meeting mine.  They quickly realise that they are just another loving, intelligent, and emotional animal on this planet as dogs and cats are, and they have been unfairly stigmatised by the media. I will kindly ask that you refrain from posting any further comments on this topic to prevent others from dying of suffocation as they inhale the toxic fumes of your blatant naivety, which permeates the atmosphere with each word written in your preposterous comment.  It is depriving the rest of us of the intelligence, logic, and common sense that typically inhabits our surroundings and is vital for our survival.  Good day.

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Rotterdam's Newest Police Enforcers Are ... Rats

Didier Burg, Les Echos, Sept. 13, 2013

A port city just like Marseille, but less riddled with crime, Rotterdam is nonetheless equipping itself with an unlikely new unit to fight illegal activity. Forensic police plan to use five big brown rats to shed light on criminal plots.

After two years of training that will soon end, Derrick, Magnum, Poirot, Dupond and Dupont--all named after famous detectives--should prove able trackers thanks to their impressive olfactory skills that surpass those of a dog. This rat dream team will start work next year in the Dutch city. Drugs, money, explosives, bodies, blood--these rodents have shown a hitherto unsuspected capacity for differentiating between odors. Rats have 1,500 olfactory genes, compared to the 1,100 of dogs and the 650 of humans.

Above and beyond their natural talent for sniffing out smells, rats also appear to be more reliable than German Shepherds. Much less sensitive to emotional bonds, a rat is not influenced by a human's attitude or sideways glance. Furthermore, some criminal cases in the Netherlands have highlighted errors dogs made when identifying suspects who had used weapons.

Rats also make financial sense. The initial cost of buying the animal is lower, of course, but training the rodents is also much quicker. The logistics of transporting these little animals, which are about the size as a large hamster, are simpler, and their food and veterinary costs are significantly less expensive than those for dogs.

But the Netherlands is not the only place interested in exploiting the talent of rodents. In Israel, the border agency and police have also tested the use of mice as a means of detecting explosives and narcotics. According to a policeman, a rat can easily detect the smell of powder in the air after a shooting.

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"...trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis."