Keep in mind the y axis has been shortened, so slugs only took up ~7% of wheel usage

I mean, that's still 7% more than I expected lol

I should get a wheel for the chipmunks and squirrels in my yard.

Put a human sized one in a public place with no context and no explanation. Guarantee there will be a line of people waiting to use it.

It's good that we're giving animals hints about how to develop technology but you'd think we'd start by handing out matches or something 🤷‍♀️

Well then. A big part of Science is replication. I gotta do it.

This made me curious so I searched out an article about it . It's an interesting read and includes a couple videos of the critters using the wheel.

"Fraction of wheel turning per species"?

This is a highly biased graph. Of course the mouse is gonna have more turning than the slug or the snail.

The fuck kind of science is this?

Last Spring, a litter of squirrels were raised in a burrow outside my kitchen window. I happened to look on the day they emerged. Very cute to see the little guys coming out. Methinks I could put a wheel out there, attached to the fence, near the ground. It seems like a good, safe spot, maybe they'll be back next Spring. I could put a camera in the window to catch them being cute.

slugs putting in miles

I doubt the snail wiped down the equipment, slimey asscrack bitch

What's a snail gonna do in that thing? I feel bad for whoever was in line for a turn behind them

The paper for anyone interested: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210

This is so wholesome. I'm really happy for them and it makes me wonder if maybe we could make environmentally friendly hamster wheels outside for animals to use.

They missed me on that chart

we yearn for the wheel

Hermit crabs love them too

The slugs, frogs and snails are pretty much brainless, don't count.

I needed this.