Fun Time: Watch Out for the Animals on the Road
A video of a bull riding a scooter in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, recently went viral online. Here’s a quick summary: A stray bull came across a scooter on the side of the road. The bull said to himself, “If I can ride this around, all the cows will want to date me.” The bull put its front legs on the scooter seat, pushed the scooter forward and rode the vehicle for about 20 meters or so, until it crashed into a wall. The bull casually walked away with a look that said, “Who did that? Not me. I’m just minding my business.”
The bull is hardly the first animal to attempt to drive a vehicle. Back in 2017, a bear took a short joyride in a car in La Plata County, Colorado. The bear entered the car and put it in neutral, causing it to roll downhill and crash into a mailbox. Dan Bender, a spokesman for the local sheriff’s office, told the BBC that some bears in the area had figured out how to open car doors, but this was the “first time they attempted to drive off with
the car.”
A couple of years after the Colorado bear attempted to drive a car, researchers in Virginia revealed that they had trained rats to drive small cars made of plastic containers. The rats needed to pull wires to control the cars and had learned to drive the cars to reach a Froot Loops treat. Last year, one of the researchers, Kelly Lambert of University of Richmond, shared more details about the research, including the fact that the rats seemed to be truly enjoying driving, like teenagers who just got their licenses.
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Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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