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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior is by Robert M. Yerkes. A note in the front matter says the Cartwright Prize was awarded, in 1907, for an Essay which comprised the first twelve chapters of this volume. The preface says the book is the direct result of what seemed to be an unimportant incident, the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
A quoted passage says the Japanese dancing mice are distinguished most by their innate habit of running around, describing greater or smaller circles or more frequently whirling around on the same spot with incredible rapidity. A chapter headed The Sense of Sight: Color Vision asks whether the dancing mouse is able to discriminate colors as we do. The author says the fact that the mice are completely deaf during the whole or the greater part of their lives suggested the query whether they are otherwise defective in sense equipment.
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- Robert Mearns Yerkes
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- 235
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