The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior — John Shaqi
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
NUMBER OF WHIRLS TO THE RIGHT AND TO THE LEFT DURING
FIVE-MINUTE INTERVALS AS DETERMINED BY COUNTS MADE AT
SIX DIFFERENT HOURS, FOR EACH OF TEN FEMALE DANCERS
NUMBER 9 A.M. 11 A.M. 2 P.M.
OF
ANIMAL RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT
29 9 18 17 30 7 22
33 287 0 329 1 352 3
35 48 15 198 46 208 14
151 13 88 7 75 3 167
157 57 6 50 45 53 12
211 218 21 31 55 66 5
215 67 216 33 105 37 226
225 46 39 72 49 143 44
415 23 0 156 0 34 3
425 43 296 12 201 12 210
Averages 81.1 69.9 90.5 60.7 91.5 70.6
Gen. Av. 151.0 151.2 162.1
NUMBER 4 P.M. 6 P.M. 8 P.M.
OF
ANIMAL RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT
29 33 114 31 36 45 99
33 436 7 408 3 364 2
35 279 6 165 24 353 10
151 3 8 2 285 2 217
157 52 15 19 125 51 104
211 190 7 86 31 67 250
215 15 292 45 336 150 232
225 133 86 48 39 177 81
415 268 3 437 7 382 8
425 12 242 19 210 4 192
Averages 142.1 78.0 126.0 109.6 159.5 119.5
Gen. Av. 220.1 235.6 279.0
The most important results of this statistical study of turning are the
demonstration of the existence of individual tendencies to turn in a
particular direction, and of the fact that the whirling increases in
amount from morning to evening.
In order to discover whether the distribution of the dancers among the
three groups which have been designated as right, left, and mixed whirlers
agrees in general with that indicated by Table 4 (approximately the same
number in each group) I have observed the direction of turning in the case
of one hundred dancers, including those of the foregoing tables, and have
classified them in accordance with their behavior as is indicated below.
RIGHT LEFT MIXED
WHIRLERS WHIRLERS WHIRLERS
Males 19 19 12
Females 12 23 15
Totals 31 42 27
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