Today, we worked on FR 15 and started at 3:31 pm.. For every 15 pushes, Fi-B received a food pellet as reinforcement. By 2 minutes and 41 seconds, we recorded 92 pushes. I am not too sure what was going on with Fi-B today. It was almost like she was hallucinating. However, it was not just Fi-B. The other rat training in a box further down was acting the same way. We observed Fi-B reaching, no - jumping for the top corner of the operant box. One time we caught her sticking to the side of the box with her feet not touching the bottom. After 17 minutes, we changed the bedding below the box. We assume she smells the previous rat (Snickerpuss III). This made a significant difference on her behavior. We also put the front to the operant box on like we did for FR 12. At the end of the training period, Fi-B recorded 465 pushes for 30 reinforcements. I've included a video with commentary on her absurd behavior today.
*I chose to use the Spiderman theme song for my title of this post as Fi-B acted like a Spiderrat during this session. EP and I even sang the song at one point.
(Here, you will see Fi-B jumping at the corners of the operant box.)
(This is the cumulative record for the FR 15 schedule.)
By the end of the session, you can see that Fi-B seemed bored.
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