By studying how rats react to tickling, scientists are gaining insight into how a brain processes and responds to the sensation. Video courtesy Humboldt University of Berlin
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Why do you laugh when you’re tickled? Scientists at Humboldt University of Berlin are studying rats to try and solve the longstanding mystery. Given the right conditions, and enough back and belly tickling by a researcher, ratscan come to associate a researcher’s cotton gloved hand with the sensation of being tickled. Tickling makes them “giggle,” albeit in frequencies too high for human ears to hear. The rats develop a fondness for the human hands, chasing their scurrying fingers in circles. The scientists observe the rat ticklishness, and track how their brain processes the sensation, hoping to uncover clues about the laugh-inducing feeling.
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This was weird
they ran out of tests to do on rats so they just started playing with them
I like rats, never understood the fear and hate of rats, for me they are little furred humans,
When I capture on in my house even when they destroy something I just throw them outside and forget about it
I came here exactly for this.
so basically at the end of the video they electrocuted the rat for science. Or should i say "to stimulate the brain".
Gross!
That is not tickling it tho… Its just moving it around.
How dare they not have the decency to ft snitch9
The whole vid is about him
That doesn't look like a normal rat to me…and yes they do live in the wild and outdoors you don't see them often or wild mice either I have seen dead ones I know they are out there too in the wilderness as well and weird spots
i would like to be in this experiment
that tickling is way too rough, that's how you would tickle a human and not a tiny rodent.
The animation looks like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This video is perfection. You may disagree, but this is peak quality.
Hey what do I do when I have a rat infestation because they can eat us
:Rat EEP EEP :Human Come to me little big rat
rat
Tickly babies
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That is so cute
The science of petting.
not ticklishness. it could just be pleasure
Inhumane explanation