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 Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:56 am
if a mouse lives inside and a rat lives outside then if a mouse goes outside does that make it a rat and if a rat goes inside does that make it a mouse if you have a answer that you would like to say please post.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:06 pm
mice are a lot smaller then rats so id have to say no
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:23 pm
either one can live in houses, or in the wild. if a golden retriever lives in a house, and a wolf lives in the forest, and the golden retriever goes outside does that make it a wolf, and if the wolf comes into the house does it make it a domestic dog? of course not. where an animal resides does not determine what species it is.
even a pet rat that lives in a cage is still a rat.. not a mouse, or a gerbil, or a hampster.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:36 am
It's an interesting bit of logic, but your first two premises are false, so your conclusion is false. Neither mice nor rats are defined by where they live and either can live in many different places.
Even if it were true that mice only live indoors and that rats only live outdoors, that does not necessarily mean that they would swap species when they swapped locations. If a mouse went outside, why would it not turn into an elk or a great white shark?
It is an interesting bit of logic, but not a very good one.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:38 pm
Put it simply, no.
Mice and rats are two very closely related species, but two species nonetheless.
No matter where they life, they remain the same.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:24 pm
The only way you coudl be right is if there was some kind of major shift in the english language to which the names of the speicies were switched, and or became based purly on where there generaly inhabit.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:16 pm
I guess it just depends on the circumstance of the person viewing the mouse/ rat. It's a rat to them if it shouldn't be in their house and they aim to get rid of it, and a mouse if it's not harmful, or if it's a pet.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:39 pm
BlazingWyvern I guess it just depends on the circumstance of the person viewing the mouse/ rat. It's a rat to them if it shouldn't be in their house and they aim to get rid of it, and a mouse if it's not harmful, or if it's a pet. No i have owned rats as pets, statues of living dose not inherently change ones genetic profile.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:08 pm
lol... it's funny cuz no one has mentioned that it's from scary movie 3
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:59 pm
yes, only if your speaking figurativly though. You could have named them something else and every one here would have said yes. Here is a way everyone would have said yes:
Yock lives on the right. Lowey lives on the left. If Yock goes to the left, does that make him Lowey? And if Lowey goes to the right, does that mean he's Yock?
But speaking literally --which i think everyone did-- no. Rats have a diffrent genetic make-up of mice, though closely related. Arnt they like cousins or some thing?
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Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:05 pm
Chew on this bit of logic! Heheheh.... Chew..... Mice and rats.... heheheh....
If a mouse can oonly live inside and a rat can only live outside, if either are taken to the other's habitat by something other than its own free will, then they stay what they are. If they go to the other's habitat on it's own free will, then yes, a mouse becomes a rat and a rat becomes a mouse, mainly because the people who see the rodent is too frightened to see that it is the other. And it is funny that no one has mentioned Scary Movie 3.
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