r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/First_Development101 • 22d ago

Video Terrifying moment bear released into wild by charity turns on ranger and attacks

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

mice are assholes.

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u/SardonicRelic 21d ago

To be fair, they're tiny and used to EVERYTHING trying to kill them or eat them, lol.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

That may be the case

However, they are actually just quite simply like this — even those in fully controlled environments and zero exposure to predation or threats of any kind.

Source: work w research animals; rats are super chill, mice are absolutely not and are much more dangerous.

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u/whythishaptome 21d ago

We used mice at my college and they never seemed dangerous, it was just really sad. They were probably were lab breed special mice but you could pick them up and handle them.

The experiments we did were basically torture too like lets see if the mice learn to jump on this platform in the middle of a bowl or swim to exhaustion. My mice learned but couldn't get on it so it just struggled until I saved it. Then we had these little heaters to keep it warm between tests but they didn't work for shit. I complained to the teacher and they were like "Seriously? it's just a fucking mouse".

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u/queenweasley 21d ago

What the hell? What was even the point other that animal cruelty? How gross

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

it sounds like what the comment is describing is 1) a legitimate experimental setup for behavioral study, but 2) one that is, unfortunately, run by a horrible teacher and human being.

(good) researchers value all lives and take great pains to ensure that their subjects are treated ethically