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Naughty rats get the tube (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago
[-] latenightnoir 51 points 2 days ago

Not just real, scientifically relevant!

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 25 points 2 days ago

That's a rat though

[-] deltatangothree@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Well that's just micing on the cake.

[-] acidbattery@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 days ago

It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the tube again.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You need to tie-die some lab coats now.

And you will be pied pipers.

(Edit I hope OP work in a lab and not Petco or some shit, otherwise "some experiments" sounds pretty ominous)

[-] SCmSTR 8 points 2 days ago

This picture gives me claustrophobia

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Moustrophobia was right there.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I want one for my cats.

[-] baines@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 days ago

so what does this do?

is it a punishment?

It's called a "decapicone", it's for humanely decapitating lab mice

[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I don't like it, but I have done so very many cervical dislocations. For my psyche, better than asphyxiation.

[-] SCmSTR 5 points 2 days ago
[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

They're easier to use for trials like this

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Not that anyone cares this is almost impossible to read on desktop

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

You are on desktop. You have so many ways to deal with that problem it's not even funny.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

And I am aware of zero of them so welcome to my blocklist unhelpful person

[-] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

I can open the image and zoom it.

[-] notsure@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

angel, if only....

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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