Oh, Rats!

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2012

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Before you chase it with a broom, consider this – without the rat, we might miss critical insights into the nature of stress, cancer … and even love. These furry, red-eyed rodents have a unique role in medical research – and a ubiquitous companion to our urban lives. Discover the origins of the albino laboratory rat … what rat laughter sounds like, and why these four-legged fur balls don’t fall victim to the pressure of the rat race … but we do. Guests: • Kelly Lambert – Behavioral Neuroscientist, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, author of The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals • Michael Gould – Professor of Oncology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison • Jaak Pankseep – Neuroscientist, Veterinary College, Washington State University, author of The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) • Pico Iyer – Writer, author of The Man Within My Head and the New York Times article The Joy of Quiet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.0	Hi, I'm Gary Niederhoff and that's my cat and he's taken up hunting, which is great fun,
1:12.5	because he brings prizes.
1:15.2	And at 4.30 in the morning, he brought in a not at all dead rat,
1:19.9	which he chased around the room for a while
1:21.7	before I woke up, and thankfully I found it climbing up a curtain and
1:27.1	cornered it and got it out of the house. But now I'm going to be setting some rat traps under the house
1:32.2	to see if we can catch any more of these.
1:34.2	I definitely want to get rid of them.
1:36.0	Kind of hate rats because they carry disease.
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