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Thursday, January 5, 2012 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

After Dinner, San Antonio NM, April 16, 2010
After Dinner, San Antonio NM, April 16, 2010

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Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Messing Up Their Results

... Jack Panksepp found that laboratory-reared rats who've never seen or smelled a cat stop playing the instant you put a tuft of cat hair in their play space. Since frightened animals don't play, that's a good indication that those rats are afraid. ... This experience got Dr Panksepp to thinking about how many research laboratories might be messing up their results due to researchers' coming to work smelling like their pet cats.

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