Word: miceli
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...mice in our farmhouse are can-do intellectuals - mice of action. My wife opened a kitchen cabinet the other day and caught two of them using their tiny, humanish hands to unscrew the top from a jar of Skippy 25% reduced fat chunky peanut butter. Two nights later, amazingly, they succeeded, and rewarded themselves with a mouse feast that left the peanut butter half gone and, all around the jar, a triumphant scattering of scats, which look like chocolate sprinkles...
...before these Darwinian marvels learn to use a can opener, a skill that will lift them to a higher stage of mouse evolution - and to the more civilized pleasures of canned Mexicorn, Bush's baked beans, and solid white, water-packed tuna. In a generation or two, smart young mice will have a system of pulleys that will open the refrigerator door in the middle of the night. God knows how a new infusion of butter, protein-rich cheese, yogurt, red-leaf lettuce, and V-8 juice will invigorate the breed and enlarge its cerebral cortex...
...hard to be hostile to creatures so charmingly intent, so assiduous, and so eagerly scrambling up the food chain. I guess they would not be cute if they carried bubonic plague. But these being glove-gray country mice that have skittered in from a Tom and Jerry cartoon, I root for their innocence and ingenuity. I am even mouse-proud. My mice are smarter than your mice! After the stunt with the Skippy peanut butter jar, I felt as they had gotten 800s on their SATs. These guys are good...
...spending my summer with flies, or in any laboratory for that matter. When I was younger, I used to dream of being a research scientist. But several years ago, I spent a summer working in a lab where I spent the whole day crushing mouse food and then running mice in mazes before they were killed for further study. Besides building nice forearms from my constant grinding with mortar and pestle, the summer taught me a lot: mice do not make wonderful conversationalists, and whatever else you do as a scientist, do not name your mice...
...DOLLY Mice clones found with serious genetic abnormalities. Baa-ad news for sheep, hopeful humans...