Word: whirler
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...sight of a mouse, pivoting on a hind leg, gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...
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