How does the drowning rats experiment make evolutionary sense

how does the drowning rats experiment make evolutionary sense

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  1. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    how does your LULZ addiction make evolutionary sense

  2. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Obviously, if an animal knows it can survive, it will stick around until it finds a chance.
    A lot of animals just off themselves when they find it is impossible to survive.

    Even human muscles are way more capable than we can actually exert because our bodies don't want us to kill ourselves.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Obviously, if an animal knows it can survive, it will stick around until it finds a chance.
      >A lot of animals just off themselves when they find it is impossible to survive.

      you gave 0 answers to the question in OP. from an evolutionary perspective rats should keep swimming for 60 hours because something might happen even in situations they don't immediately see a way out of.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        What is the difference between knowing and not knowing?
        Just like how a depressed enough person would off themselves instead of doing anything or changing their lifestyle, so would animals.
        Not a hard concept to grasp.

  3. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    They are smart, and thought the human would rescue them again. We are like gods to them. Unfortunately, humanity is sorely lacking in cognition of its godly responsibility towards other life forms, and we cruelly kill and drown rats for the sake of #science.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      seriously this sick german butthole could have saved them, when he saw them give up. Why did he have to let them drown for real? Why didn't he at least save the rats that learned?

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Onions moment
        >nuuuu meh heckin ratterionoo noo
        Post nose and ethnicity

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          oh look, a triggered german, misusing memes and misreading situations. I can smell your german autism from here buddy.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        keep your veganism to yourself

  4. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Omits the part where domesticated rats even without being pulled out would survive fricking days anyway

  5. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    It probably has to do with learned helplessness. If you tie a rat down, it will get stressed as hell and might even get PTSD, which is natural because being tied down in nature is a death sentence. But if you give it a rope to chew on, even if it's not even part of the constraints, the rat will be much less stressed. The ability to "fight back" is an important tool for psychological health, and in the case of water the rats learnt that their struggles weren't in vain. Water treading is also itself a measure of learned helplessness, so with the case of the ropes, the rats who were given something to chew on would immediately fight much longer than the rats who were constrained helplessly.

  6. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >evolution = intelligent design
    that being said
    >if you think you can survive you try to survive
    >if you think you can't survive you give up

  7. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    A few minutes of rest.

  8. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >expectation -> dopamine -> increased motivation
    An extreme manifestation of the consequences of a normal mechanism.

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