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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is this running distance? That's a completely unfair metric for the slug.

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Slugs to be you then, I guess. :P

In all seriousness, the graph shows different species as fraction of total uses recorded. Since the paper is mostly about mice, and behavioural differences under different circumstances, it being unfair to the slugs is probably not such a big deal here.