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DOES environmental enrichment make your rat sexy? Today, I'm over at Neurotic Physiology examining a paper on whether environmental enrichment drives the lady rats wild, and why that might be the case. I've got a few issues with the paper. The data is fine but it's all in the interpretation. Head over and check it out.
(But it does come with this awesome sexy rat drawing from MysticGaia, used with permission of the artist)