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“Rat-tickler” Jaak Panksepp, 73, showed that the last laugh is on us

April 24, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

The joke, Panksepp found, was on scientists who never realized that animals have senses of humor Jaak Panksepp,  73,  the neuroscientist known as “The Rat-Tickler” for demonstrating through rat experiments that rats are as much motivated by having fun as people are,  died of cancer on April 18,  2017 at his home in Bowling Green,  Ohio. A […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science Tagged With: B.F. Skinner, Frans de Waal, Karl Groos, Merritt Clifton

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