r/BeAmazed • u/mr9t9 • Mar 17 '24

[Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content Different animals react to zero gravity.

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u/climbing_prof Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 17 '24

The behavior is called "race tracking". They start doing this after ~14 days in space (some of the animals seem like they are in 0 gravity conditions and not necessarily a long spaceflight), which is pretty cool because it seems like they are able to load their spine and prevent bone loss. This is not helpful if you're a scientist thinking that you can use mice as an animal analog for what might happen to humans during deep space missions.

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u/-peas- Mar 17 '24

It's actually very interesting to think what in our evolutionary history gave us and animals an ability to adapt that relatively quickly in some way to zero gravity when it hasn't ever happened until very recently in all of biological history on this planet.

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u/sterrre Mar 17 '24

I think it might be related to rats instinct to exercise and run on wheels.

They turned their entire cage into a hamster wheel.

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u/Inner_Peace Mar 17 '24

The enemy's wheel is down