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General Chat / Re: Are chinchillas smarter than rats?
« on: March 22, 2012, 08:54:06 AM »
I've seen people train chinchillas on youtube. It often involves bribing chins with food or a scratch on the chin, and I've seen this done in absolutely the wrong way (too much of the wrong treats) too, but I've seen it. There was one that was trained to jump over an object and return, another that would put its front leg up on your hand. There was one that would allow you to pose it and it would just stay put. But then there's the question of problem solving, which is how they measure rat intelligence, like using things as tools and getting through mazes. That was one of things I'm curious about.