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» mice would be too.

Fear in Small Animals

U! think mice are nice,

They run around the house

at night I And nibble things they

‘shouldn't touch ‘ ‘ And no one seems to like

them much

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The basis of my project was to study fear in small _ animals. in my case I chose mice.

Mice aregfairly inexpen- sive to buy so I could get a lot of them for the.proj- ect. Mice are also very small so they're not to hard to scare.’ They have small voices so you\don't.bother the neighbours when conduct‘ ing the scientific parts of the project. ‘ ‘

At first, l wanted to if the mice got scared same way we do, but I ater branched out into other forms of fear“

My first attempts to scare mice were with hammers. By smashing a hammeréverV close to their‘litte, tiny heads I got good fear re- sdltsvand lots of squealing- The little creatures would try to hide in the corner of the box, cringing, but all l.had to do was hit the cage a couple of times andv this got them scurrying about again, so l could scare them again.-'

A few times (l2) I

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'accidently hit them on their

heads. This was an exper- imental error so I had to throw out the results. It serves them right, though, for making all those squeal- ing sounds. After this test I ran out of mice, and, soul had to get some-more for further tests.

Humans are scared of _ fire, so I thought probably

This theory was proved out in . _the second part of the pro- ject. I placed a mouse in

a large tin can, and then dropped in a burning piece of paper. This also brought forthtplenty of good fear, ' and lots more squealing. They would try to climb the side of the can, but kept slipping, then they'd try

‘to jump, all the time squeal-

ing‘and being scared. Then they'd just slump down andl‘ get burned up. I guess it must have been the gases. Mice are so puny anyways.

_smells. -used up,six more mice.

Lwasn't* got that awful smell again.

“as a cure,

Then l'd.have to throw water on them because the smell of burning mice is really ter- rible.. You'd have to con- duct this experiment your- self to know how bad it pl This further test.

_ I still had 14 mice left and by this time I was really getting into all the “ scientific stuff. But any- way my Mom found my mice and set them all free outside.. so I had to finish my.exper- iments over at a friends house and buy 6 more mice.~ The third part of the project I used electricity, because it's real scientific and they taught us a whole

,lot of electronics in

Physics 2ll.

The test consists of tieing their legs to an extension cord with a wire around each leg. This didn't scare the mice hardly at all, until I plugged in the cord. Did they ever jump! There: any squeals, but ll

Some hospitals call this, 'Shock Therapy' and use it: . but it didn't do too much for the miCe; Der- haps I should have used a

transformer. These resu'ts weren't very good because they were'over too quick. So I only used up 5 mice this way and tried to come. up With something slower, so as to have more'time to observe the results.

For the last part, I _ used sharp pins'and jabbed them in their cage. After , the first stab, l was ablegp‘ to get good fear results. They would run all around trying not to get poked,~ / sometimes squealing, some- ” times not. At the start7 “ they were really quick but the more they got stabbed, _ the slower they got. After quite a few stabs, they would just flop over on their side, curl up and kind of shiver. I didn't realTy expect this because it wasn't cold out or any- thing, but they wouldn't squeal anymore, so lwthrew them‘away. A ’ A ‘ _

That was pretty much as, far as'l got on with the, project this term because J ran out of money to buy miCe with. ,,

Next'term, for a project I think I will branch out to larger animals and try to, scare them. My Mom's cat just had kittens, once they get older so they can‘run and squeal, they should also be good subjects: ~~3 Possibly I will try using it chemicals, and simple‘grav-wwéifrr ity on them. There is also ‘ the hydraulic press in the lab. ' ,-