Identifier: dancingmousestud1907yerk (find matches)
Title: The dancing mouse : a study in animal behavior
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956
Subjects: Dancing mice Behavior, Animal
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ibrationalability, dizziness, and behavior when blinded. To ourknowledge of each of these three groups of facts importantcontributions have come from the experiments of Cyon(9 p. 220), Alexander and Kreidl (i p. 545), Zoth (31 p. 157),and Kishi (21 p. 482), although, as has been stated, in manyinstances their results are so contradictory as to demandreexamination. All in all, Zoth has given the most satis-factory account of the behavior and motor capacity of thedancer. If the surface upon which it is moving be sufficiently softor rough to furnish it a foothold, the dancer is able to runup or down inclines, even though they be very steep, to crossnarrow bridges, to balance itself at heights of at least 30 cm.above the ground, and even to climb up and down on rods,as is shown by certain of Zoths photographs which are re-produced in Figure 4. Zoth himself says, and in this I amable fully to agree with him on the basis of my own obser-vations, that the power of equihbration in the dancing
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Figure 4. — Zoths photographs of dancers crossing bridges and climbing rods. Reproduced from Ffliigers Archiv, Bd. 86. 44 The Dancing Mouse mouse, is, in general, very complete. The seeming reductionwhich appears under certain conditions should be attributed,not to visual dizziness, but in part to excitability and rest-lessness, and in part to a reduced muscular power (31 p. i6i).

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