Rats Catching up with FGs!

[GuyJean]

"The gaijins went thada way."
Study: Rats Have Head for Language
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/01/09/speech.rats.reut/index.html

Rats can use the rhythm of human language to tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese, researchers in Spain reported on Sunday.

For their study neuroscientists Juan Toro and colleagues at Barcelona's Scientific Park tested 64 adult male rats.

They used Dutch and Japanese because these languages were used in earlier, similar tests, and because they are very different from one another in use of words, rhythm and structure.

The rats were trained to respond to either Dutch or Japanese using food as a reward.

Then they were separated into four groups -- one that heard each language spoken by a native, one that heard synthesized speech, one that heard sentences read in either language by different speakers and a fourth that heard the languages played backwards.

Rats rewarded for responding to Japanese did not respond to Dutch and rats trained to recognize Dutch did not respond the spoken Japanese.

The rats could not tell apart Japanese or Dutch played backwards.

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

Deadly rat plague riles Tokyo residents
MSN-Mainichi Daily News, by Marvin Feltcher, March 9, 2006
She had been killed by an electric shock caused by a rat that had chewed through the power cables leading to her bathroom.
Rats are responsible for 10 similar incidents a year in the capital alone, while also causing around 40 electrical problems that don't end up in fires.
Aiding the vermin has been Japan's record cold winter, which has driven the rodents to seek warmth indoors or in hollows between buildings, and has sparked an increase in black rats of plague-like proportions....more...
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Oh man how can you resist that!

[Greji]

Study: Rats Have Head for Language GJ

Hey, if Godzilla can speak Japanese--

[homesweethome]

Deadly rat plague riles Tokyo residents
MSN-Mainichi Daily News, by Marvin Feltcher, March 9, 2006
She had been killed by an electric shock caused by a rat that had chewed through the power cables leading to her bathroom.
Rats are responsible for 10 similar incidents a year in the capital alone, while also causing around 40 electrical problems that don't end up in fires.
Aiding the vermin has been Japan's record cold winter, which has driven the rodents to seek warmth indoors or in hollows between buildings, and has sparked an increase in black rats of plague-like proportions....more...

The pictures are of Opossums, which if I don't this point out, Soc A.B. will jump all over me for. (Did I get the speling write?)

Actually the critters are just rats with an FG attitude. They warm up to you and act fuzzy, then they eat anything in sight. They also carry a vibrant breed of rabies, and are suffering from an 'AIDS like' epidemic in some places I read (which I really can do if I have to). It's not communicable to humans, but it is to cats.

Best shoot on sight!

They do make a pretty good stew though! Just get them into the pot before they start to decompose. After they have been "properly cleaned" of course.

[American Oyaji]

Weedrat Stew anyone?

[Blah Pete]

They do make a pretty good stew though! Just get them into the pot before they start to decompose. After they have been "properly cleaned" of course.

You gotta be from the country if you like possum stew.
Do you hunt squireels too?

[Greji]

They do make a pretty good stew though! Just get them into the pot before they start to decompose. After they have been "properly cleaned" of course.

I'll bet you're just pushing your tree-hung stew so's you'all can discredit my Road Pizza Parfay cause it takes an extra day or two to get tangy!

[homesweethome]

You gotta be from the country if you like possum stew.
Do you hunt squireels too?

Hey, I was raised right!