{"id":245,"date":"2005-03-11T23:40:55","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T23:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=245"},"modified":"2005-03-11T23:40:55","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T23:40:55","slug":"laughing_rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Laughing rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=626264&#038;page=1\">rats like to be tickled<\/a>. They even make a noise that resembles laughter, except that it&#8217;s ultrasonic (so we can&#8217;t hear it).<br \/>\nActually, after reading the description of the &#8220;tickling,&#8221; I think the researchers were just playing with the rats. One of the researchers says, &#8220;The animals became bonded to you and came back for more. Every possible measure of whether they like it shows yes, they love it.&#8221; That may have been news to <em>him<\/em>, but anyone who has pet rats already knows that they bond with humans and love attention. But the business about the ultrasonic chirps is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, rats like to be tickled. They even make a noise that resembles laughter, except that it&#8217;s ultrasonic (so we can&#8217;t hear it).<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}