The Mythbuster That Won't Be Aired

but it was aired.

they did do the myth of cardboard being more engergie dense, bij burning it and measuring the amount of energy released.

no mice tho.

omg, i never made so much typo's, it seems my brain did not switch to english for a full 100%. Sorry about that.

Starving a mouse until it cannibalizes another is not 'hilarious', it's animal cruelty. Are we meant to think this is funny, Neatorama?

No, but I thought you might find it interesting.

oy...pita scolds...mice eat each other sometimes starving or not...extend some compassion for all the millions that are snuffed to placate squeamish apartment dwellers...

They banned the episode about RFID chips too. I don't think they ever actually made the episode, but yea.

Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-St_ltH90Oc

That is hilarious. Sick and twisted, but hilarious none the less.

My rabbit would eat cardboard quite a bit, but of course getting other nutrients from timothy hay and a seed mix we gave her which she loved.

So myth busted on that one.
Makes you wonder though, are the chemicals used to make cereal boxes safe?
Were the mice twitchy from malnutrition, or something else they were picking up in the cardboard. hmmm.

Last Summer, I found a mouse peering in through the window of the basement light chute. I put on some working gloves and got a hold of the wee one, dropping him in a box with cheese, salami, crackers, and some damp paper towels. It wasn't until I started closing the window that I saw the gnawed-to-the-bone carcass of a second mouse. It didn't take long to understand why the mouse I had just saved seemed so well fed.

Everyone thought the FB pictures were cute (of the mouse, when we released it). No one said anything after I mentioned it was a canibal.

Aww dammit, I'd have loved to have seen that!

Remember that plane crash in Chile some good 40 years ago? Humans ate humans then. And Discovery even made a documentary about it. Go figure.

Interesting, my previous comment was not approved for some reason.
I just said that there was a plane crash in the Andes about 40 years ago, and the survivors had to eat the available dead bodies (they ate the pilot!) to survive. And Discovery even made a very graphic documentary about it. How controversial.

Mice will often eat each other in displays of dominance if you are not careful in grouping them. I worked in a research lab where it was not uncommon to find only tails left after a less dominant mouse was eaten by a more dominant one. I doubt the mythbusters intentionally set out to make the mice eat each other.

The episode aired just without that experiment.

Sometimes in the animal kingdom, animals aren't all cute and fluffy and they do things which, if we are ignorant to attache human personas to them, we could describe as cruel. I resent Neatorama for clearing the fog that is my own preferred reality.