Feb 09
18
Evolution of mouse
To start with I am not talking about your computer mouse… I am talking about the rat in the house… Even these guys are getting smarter… Well this is what I have concluded after a couple of drinks with a friend.
I remember as a child in our old house there used to lot of rats and we used to put mouse traps in night, with some bread to tempt them. Initial few attempts were successful, but as the time passed the success ratio came down. Rats were no longer interested in breads; they wanted something more, probably dry fruits. With the change in menu, the success ratio again came up but the success was short lived. So, I think, we changed the trap. That was a nice move, but how long can someone fool an evolving species… Later we realized that food from the trap was disappearing and we were not having our prized catch in the mornings. Rats were becoming smarter with each passing generations… They were transferring their knowledge from one generation to another pretty effectively.
Well time has passed and many new things have come since then to catch rats… In my old office building they were keeping stick pads with some cookies, but I never found a mouse stuck to it. So knowledge transfer has not stopped and so has the evolution of mouse… If they continue at this rate, the time is not far when they will be more intelligent than humans!!! 
That reminds me of Frankie and Benjy mouse from “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy“, working on a super computer simulation!!
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