any good gerbil science fair projects???

Question

if there is a good gerbil project that i can use pleese tell me

Answer 1

How about testing gerbil's sense of smell, by putting food behind a door, and having 3 doors to choose from. See if the gerbil chooses the right one. Or put him in a maze...

Answer 2

Here's a fun one: can gerbils see in colour?

People can't see infra-red or ultra-violet. Bulls are colourblind (red doesn't really make them mad, but people poking them does!). Bees don't see red, but can see ultraviolet. What about gerbils?

How can this be tested? The imagination required to design experiments is my favorite part of science.

Here's a hint that'll get you started:

use empty tissue boxes of different colours (but otherwise identical), cut a doorway in the back of the box, and always put food in the same colour box. The gerbil will learn which colour to associate with the food and will eventually run straight to the box with the food -- but only if it can tell the boxes apart.

The problem is, a colourblind gerbil might be able to tell a blue box from a yellow box because one looks dark grey and the other looks light grey. So you'll have to be careful of the shades. If you have a digital camera, maybe you can take greyscale (black and white) photos of colour samples from the hardware store and use the images to pick *several* different colours that look similar in the photos.

For it to be a true experiment, you'll have to plan the entire experiment beforehand, including how many times you will do the test (these are called replicates), how many different gerbils you will test (these are your subjects), how many times you will train them before the test, and how you will analyze the data (use statistics if you're an older student).

Good luck and have fun!

Answer 3

Melissa Wong, 17, a Clear Brook High School junior, said she was a little nervous when the judges stopped to look at her project, "A-maze-ing Gerbils."

"You have to throw everything at them really fast. That's when you really get across how much work you've done," Wong said.

Her project, which took about two months to complete, consisted of two parts: the first tested how playing different types of music affected the amount of time it took gerbils to run through mazes she constructed. Wong found that playing classical music cut the time in half.

The second part also had gerbils run the maze, but it also involved the subjects listening or not listening to classical music 24 hours a day from birth until they were 4 weeks old. The music-listening gerbils completed the maze in one-fourth the time it took the gerbils that did not listen to music.

Wong said having to explain her project to judges "makes you think. It'll make you understand your project even more."

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Answer 4

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place white wine in refrigerator to chill.
On stove in a saucepan prepare gravy.
Place gerbil in shallow baking pan for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown crust forms. Remove and allow to cool 10 minutes.
Place roasted gerbil on plate and serve with gravy on side with glass of wine and enjoy!

Answer 5

Most science fairs do not allow live animals to be part of the exhibit itself. Check to see if this is the case for you. If it is, take good pictures and document well. You could also use stuffed animals if you want to demonstrate how your project was done.

Answer 6

Very interested to hear the answers to this as well

Answer 7

And the same question comes up again

Answer 8

can't use animals