jackironsides:

cracktheglasses:

tchtchtchtchtch:

pervocracy:

are you ready for my favorite fact?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

that is my favorite fact

Please tell me someone has done this and set up a camera

@jillandjackalope

SOMEONE DID. Neurophysiologist Johanna Meijer, in fact.

There’s 9 seconds of video here and the whole article is frankly charming.

“Sometimes the rodents were so eager to run that they couldn’t wait to take turns, she says: At one point, a large mouse sent a smaller mouse flying when it climbed on to the wheel and started running in the opposite direction.”