{"id":1900,"date":"2005-01-18T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2005-01-18T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T16:12:12","slug":"turbo-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Turbo Rats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the docs here has been working on a rat breeding program, selecting for athletic ability in order to study genetic predisposition for particular diseases&#8230;  There&#8217;s a whole press release on it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mco.edu\/pr\/newsmco\/2003_February_10_11_52_42.html\">from last year<\/a> when he was in Ohio, so it&#8217;s not exactly breaking news&#8230;  On the other hand, now that he&#8217;s here I got to film him.  And the rats.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s basically two groups of rats that have had sixteen generations of breeding behind them.  Group one, the &#8220;High Capacity&#8221; rats, were selected for their ability to perform aerobic exercise.  Group two, the &#8220;Low Capacity&#8221; rats&#8230; well&#8230; they&#8217;re basically couch potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Whiny couch potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/movies\/Running_Rats.mp4\">Here&#8217;s a movie<\/a> of them &#8216;running&#8217; side by side&#8230;  Guess which one is the high capacity rat and which one is low capacity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the docs here has been working on a rat breeding program, selecting for athletic ability in order to study genetic predisposition for particular diseases&#8230; There&#8217;s a whole press release on it from last year when he was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}