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The mice get all the good statues.
between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough
Submitted 16 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
What’s in the backpack?!
bampop@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
sounds like it’s a gps transponder
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Probably something other than gps, because that doesnt work when under a bunch of rubble.
CluckN@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
C4
SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Some sort of signal emitter maybe? So the rescue team knows to look where the hero rat triggered it.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 13 hours ago
Cheese
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 15 hours 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 4 hours 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
spinne@sh.itjust.works 12 hours 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 11 hours ago
Me in collapsed building, seeing a rat with a backpack:
HOLY SHIT; NIMH IS REAL!?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
… Yes nimh is real. It’s based on the real nimh!
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 hours ago
NIMH IS REAL!?
Ironically yes it was!
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
They should train them to bring down a little can on a string so you can talk to them 😂
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 10 hours ago
I mean, you joke, but you couod probabky kit them out with a small Bluetooth earbud to pass off.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 hours 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.
infuziSporg@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
Cattail@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Now if only we could get that rat past Israeli blockade 🇵🇸
maplesaga@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I was considering own one, but then I read they continuously piss everywhere.
ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works 8 hours 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 6 hours 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.
postnataldrip@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Gotta love a heroic snotpest
hotspur@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Same organization and same rats!
claxax@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
Took me a sec to get that the #womaninstem wasnt referring to the rat lol
lvxferre@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
My cats, in the meantime: train themselves to know when humans dispense food, everything else be damned!
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 hours ago
LD50 (Rat)
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 15 hours ago
#Hero Snot Pests
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Here is a lovely statue of a rat knitting DNA:
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We owe a lot to rats.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 4 hours 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.