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Post by leafwhisp on Mar 29, 2015 15:09:04 GMT -8
No, that's a good idea! I have a feeling I'll be doing sound, not color, because even with the experiments suggested, for all my audience could know, gerbils see different shades of white, grey, and black (I know differently now, but my audience wouldn't).
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Post by vexorg on Apr 1, 2015 0:33:27 GMT -8
Colour would be difficult to prove, you'd need to use colours that appear the same when converted to grey scale.
Sound it much easier, you can see an instant reaction from ears and looking round. The problem now is that they can hear above our hearing range, a bit like dogs, so how to prove it's better if we can't hear it anyway?
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Post by leafwhisp on Apr 1, 2015 13:01:37 GMT -8
Ok, so I have a simple project I guess, but my dad thought it the best of my ideas. My project is to see how gerbils react to different kinds of music at different times of day.
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Post by vexorg on Apr 2, 2015 0:52:38 GMT -8
One of our gerbils was completely deaf, might be worth checking before you start
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Post by leafwhisp on Apr 2, 2015 15:36:42 GMT -8
Ok, tested. thanks, good point!
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keldamouse
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rest in peace my dear lovely Leela youre in our hearts
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Post by keldamouse on Apr 7, 2015 9:43:09 GMT -8
HI Leafwhisp, so how is the project coming? It made me think of your sound project when last night my little Fiona got P.O'ed at Leela because she was crowding her lookout spot. Fiona is bascially only vocal (at least where I can hear it) when Leela gets on her last nerve...
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Post by leafwhisp on Apr 7, 2015 16:09:06 GMT -8
My project is going great! So far I've only done classical and jazz. Surprisingly when I played the jazz two of my gerbils froze for nearly all of the 20 minutes I played it to them! Froze literally. They had been burrowing and they climbed up the ladder to a third level house (where they eat) and sat staring the whole time. Normal?
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Post by betty on Apr 12, 2015 0:48:54 GMT -8
No, not really. My gerbils sometimes stay very still in the Meerkat pose for several minutes when they are startled by a seagull outside the window, but never 20 minutes.
Perhaps they were drawn to the sounds rather than the tune, I'm sure that they perceive noise in a totally different way to us and so different frequencies may have made them react. All very interesting though...
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Post by leafwhisp on Apr 23, 2015 13:24:50 GMT -8
My presentation is this evening!
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