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Guinea Pig Intelligence Shown Not to be Affected by Domestication
Okay, I am not a fan of using guinea pigs for research r studies, for obvious reasons – however this little news article came across my radar today and I wanted to share it with you.
Research done by BioMed shows that domesticated and wild guinea pig show equal ability at completing intelligence tests. Essentially the researchers had the guinea pigs compete at doing various tests such as maze completion.
Read more if you are interested:
http://sify.com/news/guinea-pigs-not-dumbed-down-by-domestication-news-international-kd0qufaajfh.html
Interesting, but not too surprising…
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