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FrankBlunt
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 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:57 am Post subject: Japanese Scientists Create Fearless Mouse |
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Japanese Scientists Create Fearless Mouse
Since the mouse had nasal cells removed via genetic tampering, its failure in reacting with fear to the presence of a cat (Domestic cat known to be amicable) could mean that the sole method of feline threat acknowledgment, among others, is olfactory-based.
I'd like to know if the research team doused an inanimate object with feline scent gland secretions as a control to test a normal mouse's reaction. Yeah, that's right, I didn't call it a non-disabled mouse, I won't, and you can't make me.
If you blind-fold a man and aim a gun at his head, he's not going to fear for his life, because he won't see the gun. It doesn't follow that he's lost his self-preservation fear response to firearms pointed at close range to his skull.
| Quote: | Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats — showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through experience, as commonly believed.
Source - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316676,00.html |
No, recognition of feline threat is hardwired in the mouse's sense of smell. The inference drawn by the scientists appears to be too deep.
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