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...think scientists, its life is a frantic quest for the balance which it cannot feel on a horizontal plane. Sometimes it whirls on a hind leg, sometimes runs in circles or figure-eights, always twitching, jerking, swaying its head. Occasionally an accomplished mouse varies the routine with a shuffling backstep. Sometimes the mice dance together, one spinning on a hind leg while another runs circles around it. They like to run on treadmills, through tunnels, over bridges, up inclines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Waltzing Mice | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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