Here is an article about it: zmescience.com/…/hamster-wheel-running-nature-rep…
Everyone wants a turn
Submitted 1 year ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ickplant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damage@feddit.it 1 year ago
Thanks, the picture was way too far into the Jpeg realm
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Animals have Free Wheel
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 1 year ago
Think of the energy that could be generated this way
danekrae@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Getting in shape for mating season
vane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait until corporations find out there are animals that want to do free labor and you don’t have to feed them.
Corn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
They already do that for civet coffee.
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The civets are not in it voluntarily though. They do eat the coffee fruits spontaneously, but for civet coffea production they are usually captured and kept in tiny cages - it’s really sad.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
There are also bigger ones for cats, they also love it
www.youtube.com/shorts/VHQKaqZXvHo
Except parrots, they love to use it un a different way
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The cat cafe in Denver used to have a big one, it was great to see the cats take turns in it. One would just lay at the bottom of it and hog it from others who wanted to use it.
LapleMeaf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a strange use of question marks?
tromars@feddit.org 1 year ago
I think they’re meant to express surprise or bewilderment here, which works imo
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Where’s @theUwUhugger@lemmy.world when you need ‘em?
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 year ago
slug enters the wheel
training montage music starts
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I have gerbils. Some of them love it and some couldn’t care less. For one it took over 6 months of watching her sister and just sitting in it to figure out how it works. Once she did, there was no end to it.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than snails, go have a walk and demolish that snail distance figure! 🐢
Hagdos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would be really surprising to see turtles on the wheel, considering there are no wild turtles in the Netherlands.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Free Wheely!
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Now this is the type of science, I can get behind.
CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is most of science, something you cannot?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 year ago
I’m imagining a Bjenny Montero cartoon, where the cartoon frog character is running on the wheel and the cartoon slug character standing next to it says “Hey! Quit hogging the wheel! I want a go.”
Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hermit crabs love them too!
Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you ever seen a human size wheel? They are pretty fun so I totally get it
theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Something
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hey! Ranking the species by distance is really unfair!
bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That makes the slugs even more impressive
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I think slugs got tricked into thinking it was an endless surface and kept exploring it.