Mice Run for Fun, Not Just Work, Research Shows By JAMES GORMANMAY 20, 2014
If an exercise wheel sits in a forest, will mice run on it?
Every once in a while, science asks a simple question and gets a straightforward answer.
In this case, yes, they will. And not only mice, but also rats, shrews, frogs and slugs.
True, the frogs did not exactly run, and the slugs probably ended up on the wheel by accident, but the mice clearly enjoyed it. That, scientists said, means that wheel-running is not a neurotic behavior found only in caged mice.
They like the wheel.
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