NationStates Jolt Archive

Holy shit Douglas Adams was right! Rats are smarter than humans!

http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5910534.html

Rat outsmarts scientists
Scientists in New Zealand released a rat on a desert island, hoping to study why rats are so hard to get rid of.

Ten weeks later, the rat was captured on another island. It had evaded traps, baits and sniffer dogs before swimming 400 meters across open sea to the neighboring island, according to news reports.

"Our findings confirm that eliminating a single invading rat is disproportionately difficult," James Russell and his colleagues said in a report in the science journal Nature.

Not to be pedantic, but its mice who are super-intelligent

Oh yeah....but still. He was close.

Not to be pedantic, but its mice who are super-intelligent
White mice in particular.

does that make cats smarter than mice and rats?

Now if that rat can just help out the physicists at Georgia Tech solve the cold fusion problems, we'll really have something. I mean anyone can get from one island to another. Well, maybe not Gilligan and his bunch, but most everyone else.

We never said that Gilligan and his bunch were the smartest members of the human race.