Experimenting with wild mice in mazes. Mice are amazingly good at traversing mazes, it turns out, so I had to make the maze more complicated. But the shrew reigned victorious woodgears.ca/fa...
Not only the mice and shrew are entertaining to watch, the piano effects is fantastic enhancement to the video. So pleasant to the eyes and ears at the same time.
Love your mouse maze videos, they're so entertaining! The sound effects really add a lot of personality. I'd love to see a maze with mirrors and how the rodents react to that.
The Shrew is my favorite character in all of anime. He always gets the best arcs and it's been super fulfilling seeing him gain in power season after season.
On the next episode Matthias Wandel adds spinning walls , lever activated trap doors , lava pits , a crocodile infested river , that cutting laser grid hallway from the Resident Evil movie , and an exculator to the next floor . Stay tuned !
Ok, E. Shelby, if that's animal abuse, I'd love to see one where the entrance closes but automatically opens an alternate exit. Then make it so that every time an entrance is used, it automatically closes and opens the other entrance. Lets see if they understand the concept of alternating one-way.
That wouldn't be animal abuse -- it would just be the world's most entertaining "humane mouse trap." Just above the spinny-walkway-of-doom over an empty bucket.
Y’know what you should do? You should make those kinds of maxes that have a big center. Step 1: make a maze with a center that has a entrance and an exit. Step 2: place a door flap at both of the doorways(?) at the center so that the mouse can enter the the maze and head into the center but not exit the center through the entrance. The mouse will be forced to get out of the maze through the other door flap that will lead them to the exit of the maze. This will prevent them from coming in and out through only one route. They’ll need to learn how to enter and exit the center.
Put a tracking device in one of the sunflower seeds so you know where the stash is :D I never expected the shrew to be the star of these experiments. Came for mouse, stayed for shrew :)
This is awesome experiment. Shrews are mostly blind and depend on other senses to navigate underground. That's why shrew was able to find the path more accurately every time. They also leave the trail of scent behind.
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Shrews release a pheromone that allows them to retrace there steps pretty accurately. They use this ability to raid others nests. Shrews will pack up and move if another has raided there nest cause they know the culprit can always find his way around there place after one successful journey.
I love your mouse videos. They are such fascinating animals with their high intelligence and agility. I wonder how much their scent marking helps them to find previous paths in the maze. Maybe it would be an option to wipe the maze and see if that has any visible effect
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Hello fellow name-sharer, I, too, was surprised by the mice learning their way around the maze. Until I remembered a conversation I had with an exterminator. He told me that the "instant death traps" he used would kill the mice immediately, and the reason he used them was that if the mice were to live for a while, they would automatically coat the trap with pheromons signaling distress, making the trap unattractive for future mice. I assume that the mice panicing in the individual dead ends infused the maze with basically road signs that would show routes to success, leaving smells of "food here", "no food anymore", and the smell of relief and panic. Therefore it may be less about memorizing but about leaving figurative bread crumbs.
Matt, use a UV light. Mice leave a urine trail so they will always find there way out of your maze. The mouse urine reflects light in the UV spectrum. Interesting fact, predator bird species, like falcons, can see in the UV range and see the trail from the air making mice easy prey.
I feel kind of dumb watching this. But there is 4 million people also who have watched this. A maze for wild mouses? How much of work just to observe mouses doing mazes! But this is also very interesting. At least in the morning hours. I'm more confused.
Shrews cannot see as well as mice and rely on echolocation because they can’t hear well either. It’s possible that the shrew moved the seeds to have a better idea where the path ends. The seeds may have blocked its ability to locate the wall behind. Shrews are also smarter than mice.
I would like to mention that a few times the shrew tried climbing the maze from the outside, it's just hard to notice since the video being shown is very fast, but I figure since it tried climbing on top of the maze it'd find out relatively quickly.
Shrews have poor eyesight but their sense of smell makes up for it. They also for food in trees, leaf litter and underground. They’ll dig burrows too, so it’s not surprising that they can make their way through this maze and push stuff around.
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It was entertaining watching the frantic mouse getting lost. You should have closed the entrance to really bamboozle the mouse! It would also be interesting to see the shrew and mouse bump into each other in the maze... and both be in a panic!
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I love the care for these animals! You don't hurt the mice in anyway as if mice aren't beings because they're small, uncared for creatures that get in your house and eat your food only because noone adopts them. Instead, you give them little challenges!
If I were that small and went through a maze with gaps that small and finished in that quick of a time I would have banked my head aleast 5 times. The shrew's time without bonking his head was amazing. #legendaryskills
This video got me reading a little about shrews. Apparently some shrews have powerful venom, and they are aggressively territorial. I THINK this shrew is one of them. This would explain why the mouse got nervous about the larger/tighter maze - if it happened to get caught in close quarters with the shrew, it would probably be killed.
Metaphor of the shrew and mouse The shrew never gave up and made it to the treasure while the mouse just gave up on the very first difficulty. NEVER GIVE UP!! ~Mr. Shrew
Way better the the rubbish they put on TV,no wonder why youtube has become a big hit,with people like this man entertaining us! Thank you that was fun.
i'm wondering if the shrew droppings made the mice hesitant to explore further since they recognized another animal could potentially be in the maze and attack them
I was wondering something like that too. Maybe the mouse can smell that the shrew has been there, and is hesitant about entering the more confined space.
this is not an activity typical of engineering, actually, it has nothing to do with engineering. I assume this man does it for fun, or, if he is doing it for a school project, I assume he studies some form of behavioral science.
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Dang that Shrew just aced that maze that was just crazy my gosh he just didn't want to give up. Just like me, I never want to give up in my life either. You know how the saying goes Matthias "never never never give up".
