DivineChaos100 [none/use name] to science • 2 years agoGene Editing Gone Wrong: Scientists Accidentally Create Angry Hamsters | Portsideexternal-linkmessage-square19 fedilinkarrow-up146
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minus-square7bicycles [he/him]hexbear16·2 years ago Of all rodents, hamsters have a social organization and stress response that is most human-like. I...what?I thought this was rats. I've also heard this about guinea pigs. You can keep a hamster alone cause they're loners, can't you? That doesn't strike me as very human like link
minus-squareSpongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]hexbear12·2 years agoYeah, they need to be kept alone. They dont socialize except to mate. link
minus-square7bicycles [he/him]hexbear14·2 years agoObviously the perfect creature to study human behaviour off of. So what's the odds these hamsters aren't genetically edited to be angry, they're just regular ass hamsters angry at unnaturally being kept like 10 in a cage link
minus-squareSpongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]hexbear11·2 years agoSeeing as how I've read exactly one wikipedia article on the topic. 100% link
I...what?I thought this was rats. I've also heard this about guinea pigs.
You can keep a hamster alone cause they're loners, can't you? That doesn't strike me as very human like
Yeah, they need to be kept alone. They dont socialize except to mate.
Obviously the perfect creature to study human behaviour off of.
So what's the odds these hamsters aren't genetically edited to be angry, they're just regular ass hamsters angry at unnaturally being kept like 10 in a cage
Seeing as how I've read exactly one wikipedia article on the topic. 100%