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Saturday, February 7, 2009 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Scaled quail next door, Rockhound State Park, Deming, New Mexico, February 7, 2009
Scaled quail next door, Rockhound State Park, Deming, New Mexico, February 7, 2009

This is a popular park. There are still more campers than sites with a few folks waiting in the group site for a site with hookups to open up.

Night camp

Site 27 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Messing Up Their Results

... Jack Panksepp found that laboratory-reared rats who've never seen or smelled a cat stop playing the instant you put a tuft of cat hair in their play space. Since frightened animals don't play, that's a good indication that those rats are afraid. ... This experience got Dr Panksepp to thinking about how many research laboratories might be messing up their results due to researchers' coming to work smelling like their pet cats.

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