Post by ishido on Oct 7, 2004 23:39:08 GMT -8
I got this idea from my watching my friends' gerbils...
It'd be interesting to see how fast everyone's gerbils can shred a standardized item such as a cardboard tube. For this I'll use a paper towel roll. Feel free to post your actual time. I'm using points too, to make it fair. 5 minutes to shred a roll is easier for 5 gerbils vs. 1 gerbil. The lower the point score the better. Hence, 5 gerbils shredding a tube in 5 minutes would be 25 points. 2 gerbils shredding the same tube in 10 minutes would have 20 points. The 20 points wins since the 2 gerbils are doing more "work."
I would be interested to see actual times.
Guidelines/rules:
1) other distractions may be removed, i.e. wheel, other tubes, etc.
2) all gerbils in the tube will count regardless of whether they shred. So if one gerbil in a cage of 3 does the all the work, you must still account for all 3 gerbils.
3) distractions may be removed for a maximum of 24 hours. Boring your gerbil for over that time would just be unfair
4) Food and water should still be present
5) lazy gerbils may be removed from the count if removed from the cage prior to shredding
6) shredding must be conducted in their comfortable living quarters.
7) a cardboard tube is considered finished when all gerbils have lost interest in shredding the tube because the pieces are small enough. There may be some "chunks" of cardboard left... but the gerbil will decide if they lose interest when they are "done." A maximum of 5% of the paper towel tube may be left.
8) this experiment/competition will use a paper towel roll.
9) the time may be restarted as long as 95% of the roll is still there. For example: a gerbil starts chewing but stop briefly but later starts again.
10) the gerbils will still be "on the clock" if they stop shredding and the tube is past 5% chewed up.
I haven't "officially" done this yet But it took 10 minutes to shred a tube between one full time gerbil and two part time gerbils.
I got the idea after watching my friend give his two gerbils a paper plate. 15 minutes later it was gone. One gerbil working 100% of the time, the other working about 35-40%.
Try to include how much work each of the gerbils do. Maybe we'll handicap the point count, depending on the work they do ;D Happy shredding
It'd be interesting to see how fast everyone's gerbils can shred a standardized item such as a cardboard tube. For this I'll use a paper towel roll. Feel free to post your actual time. I'm using points too, to make it fair. 5 minutes to shred a roll is easier for 5 gerbils vs. 1 gerbil. The lower the point score the better. Hence, 5 gerbils shredding a tube in 5 minutes would be 25 points. 2 gerbils shredding the same tube in 10 minutes would have 20 points. The 20 points wins since the 2 gerbils are doing more "work."
I would be interested to see actual times.Guidelines/rules:
1) other distractions may be removed, i.e. wheel, other tubes, etc.
2) all gerbils in the tube will count regardless of whether they shred. So if one gerbil in a cage of 3 does the all the work, you must still account for all 3 gerbils.
3) distractions may be removed for a maximum of 24 hours. Boring your gerbil for over that time would just be unfair
4) Food and water should still be present
5) lazy gerbils may be removed from the count if removed from the cage prior to shredding
6) shredding must be conducted in their comfortable living quarters.
7) a cardboard tube is considered finished when all gerbils have lost interest in shredding the tube because the pieces are small enough. There may be some "chunks" of cardboard left... but the gerbil will decide if they lose interest when they are "done." A maximum of 5% of the paper towel tube may be left.
8) this experiment/competition will use a paper towel roll.
9) the time may be restarted as long as 95% of the roll is still there. For example: a gerbil starts chewing but stop briefly but later starts again.
10) the gerbils will still be "on the clock" if they stop shredding and the tube is past 5% chewed up.
I haven't "officially" done this yet
But it took 10 minutes to shred a tube between one full time gerbil and two part time gerbils.I got the idea after watching my friend give his two gerbils a paper plate. 15 minutes later it was gone. One gerbil working 100% of the time, the other working about 35-40%.
Try to include how much work each of the gerbils do. Maybe we'll handicap the point count, depending on the work they do
;D Happy shredding