The Phenomenon of the Lazy Geoff

Dr. Dani Rabaiotti, author of the book Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence, posted a Tweet that went on to tell the story of tracking an urban fox when she was an undergrad. The fox just sat under a shed for three months, which isn't all that interesting and probably sounded sketchy to her supervising professor. But it is a tale that all animals scientists know, because they have all encountered a "Lazy Geoff."

Yeah, tarantulas just walk around in circles when they are confined to a Tupperware bowl.

It's not just wild animals, either.

There's a reason the animal kingdom produces examples of the Lazy Geoff.

But why are we making fun of animals that don't move much? Humans act this way, too. I had an incident in which Facebook required me to download a tracking app to my smartphone in order to keep my blog's page. I don't have a smartphone, so goodbye page. They can track my desktop all they want, but it's not going anywhere. But to be honest, my dumb phone doesn't go anywhere much, either.

Read many more stories of animals that don't move enough to justify the expense of tracking them under this Tweet. -via Metafilter


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There's something uniquely sick about stapling a tracker to an animals ear and at no point do you think its animal abuse and you're 100% okay with it. How do they know beyond a shadow of a doubt it's not annoying the animal 24 hours a day? How do they know the tracker will never snag on anything and not cause huge problems for the animal including death?
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