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Fascinating: A Surprisingly Human Connection: Laughing Rats

By Christopher, On The Edge of America on August 11, 2007 11:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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"Joy, gentle friends! joy, and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!"
~ William Shakespeare, Theseus, V.1, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Stephanie Willen Brown's CogSci Librarian blog has written about new studies suggesting that many manuals (e.g., dogs) not only play -- they laugh when they play. Check out this fascinating almost whimsical video of rats at play with Bowling Green State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp.

Further Reading

Laughing rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy? Physiological Behavior, Aug 2003; 79(3): 533-47.

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