A rat peeks out from behind a piece of cardboard while playing hide and seek. Photo: TNS
Ready or not, here they come: Scientists who played hide and seek with rats found that their furry subjects seemed to love the game – and they were remarkably good at it.
The unconventional experiment, described in a recent edition of Science journal, sheds light on the sophisticated sense of play in these rodents and the complex mechanisms at work in their brains. It also hints at the evolutionary usefulness of this type of play.
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