Cassandra Deichsel

@cassdeichsel.bsky.social

Neuroscientist turned sales executive at Campden Instruments striving to provide scientists the best possible tools for their research 🧠 American living in Germany ✈️ Dog mom 🐕 She/Her, Views are my own https://campdeninstruments.com/

Amazing 😍 This is your sign to get Actimetrics low-profile running wheels for all of your mouse cages! Who wouldn't want to ensure your mice have fun on a daily basis!? Best thing is that you can fully analyse their wheel use with the ClockLab software which can then in turn provide valuable data!

Mike Sowden@mikeachim.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.

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