Who needs self-driving cars when we can have rat-driving cars?
Who needs rat-driving cars, when you have Snakes on a Plane:
Rats learned to drive
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#72Zardulu strikes again
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#73This reminded me of the orangutan driving a golf cart: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsn1QivbKM He has mastered it. He clearly understands the concept of roads vs sidewalks. He can drive using one hand. And most importantly, he obviously has a great time doing that.
and that reminds me of... https://www.youtu.be/IFACrIx5SZ0 orangutan the carpenter https://www.youtu.be/PcvH1eOjOVs parrot drives his own car
sorry
https://youtu.be/IFACrIx5SZ0 orangutan the carpenter
https://youtu.be/PcvH1eOjOVs parrot drives his own car
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#74I saw a news story about rats being trained in Tanzania to search for people under rubble. These animals have sharp hearing and an excellent sense of smell. I just don’t remember the exact breed of these rats. I really like these animals!
Is not a breed, is a different species. Giant pouched rats from the African rainforests. Not even in the same family as the domestic rats.
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#75The funniest thing to me is that rats are much quicker on their feet than they are in the toy car.
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#76This reminded me of the orangutan driving a golf cart: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsn1QivbKM He has mastered it. He clearly understands the concept of roads vs sidewalks. He can drive using one hand. And most importantly, he obviously has a great time doing that.
For those who haven't seen The Sopranos, here is what that video is based off of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJpNmYeooQE
One of the best TV shows ever produced. Sooo good.
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#77Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08G8u7sk2Jo A different one, in a home environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHMc3-f3v8
The home one .. nice people but there's something so lost about dedicating your life and house to your pet rats. Everyone seems to living a fake life in that.
I don't think there's anything "lost" about having a hobby, or passion and love for your pets. I find it endearing and sweet.
I'm not sure if english is your first language or you intended it like that but saying that someone is living a "fake life" also sounds quite offensive and arrogant.
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#78"One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella."
For anyone having, being friends with, are interested in cats will recognize this behavior. If you meet a cat on the street and it raises its tail like this, it will also probably come up to you. A cat that sweeps the tail back and fort, often with the end of it a bit jerky is probably afraid, angry, hesitant and does not want to engage. It should be left alone unless you want to feel the sharp end of those retractable razor blades.
Cats also use the same patterns between each other. And interestingly some dogs use the same patterns too. Tiger puppies seem to do this also (as seen in documentaries). So, at least to me, there seems to be common 'language' to express feelings and interests between some animals equipped with tails.
I would have thought this should have been a known thing, possibly even for the driving rat scientists. Anybody on HN that have some references into known ´tail language´?
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#79"One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella." For anyone having, being friends with, are interested in cats will recognize this behavior. If you meet a cat on the street and it raises its tail like this, it will also probably come up to you. A cat…
Is it like an "Oh hi!" tail?
Suddenly interested in the `animal tail gestures embedding space`!
There must be lots of interesting ways of conveying feelings, strategic intent and misdirection along with subconscious communication.
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#80This reminded me of the orangutan driving a golf cart: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsn1QivbKM He has mastered it. He clearly understands the concept of roads vs sidewalks. He can drive using one hand. And most importantly, he obviously has a great time doing that.
I don't understand.
Someone, at some point, said lets see if the Orangutan can drive the golf cart, and presumably no one said "NO! That's an awful idea"...
Then not only did it learn, it got good at it and seems to enjoy it...
I just really don't understand how this came about. How did it learn to do this. The initial phases must have been just constant crashing into stuff. How on earth did it ever get past this without a teacher being able to communicate with it.
I have so many questions.