The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorYerkes, Robert Mearns
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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
Yerkes, Robert Mearns
Animal behavior; Dancing mice
The above series of tests was given under the same external conditions in
a dark-room to six pairs of dancers. In all cases, two individuals, a male
and a female, which had been kept in the same cage, were experimented with
at the same time, _i.e._ one was permitted to rest in the nest-box while
the other was being put through a test. This was done in order that the
comparison of the results for males and females should be perfectly fair.
The detailed results of this long series of tests may be presented for
only two individuals, Nos. 210 and 215, Table 33. In this table lines
separate the results of the seven different kinds of tests.
TABLE 33
THE ROLE OF SIGHT, TOUCH, AND SMELL IN LABYRINTH EXPERIMENTS
No. 210 No. 215
TEST CONDITION ERRORS CONDITION ERRORS
I. 1 No shock 9 I. No shock 2
II. 2 Shock 5 II. Shock 3
3 Shock 4 Shock 1
4 Shock 2 Shock 0
5 Shock 3 Shock 0
6 Shock 0 Shock 0
7 Shock 0 Shock 0
8 Shock 0 Shock 0
9 Shock 0 III. Labyrinth 0
moved
10 Shock 0 IV. Paper on floor 4
III. 11 Labyrinth 0 No paper (shock) 0
moved
IV. 12 Paper on 0 0
floor
13 No paper 0 No paper 0
(shock)
14 Paper 1 Paper 1
15 No paper 0 No paper 0
16 Paper 7 Paper 4
17 No paper 0 No paper 0
18 Paper 0 Paper 0
19 No paper 0 No paper 0
20 Paper 4 Paper 0
21 No paper 0 No paper 0
22 Paper 2 V. Darkness 0
23 No paper 2 VI. Labyrinth 2
24 Paper 1 washed 0
25 No paper 0 VII. Darkness 2
26 Paper 0
27 No paper 0
28 Paper 0
29 No paper 0
V. 30 Darkness 0
VI. 31 Labyrinth 2
washed
32 0
VII. 33 Darkness 0
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