Animal Magnetism

Not That Mike The Other Mike

These bunnies really stick together!

In today’s experiment, we will see that the bonds between rabbits can become so strong that they actually take on a magnetic quality.  In the first demonstration, a negatively-charged lopitron attracts two positively charmed flopitrons.

This magnetic attraction persists even when the polarity is reversed, thusly:

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10 thoughts on “Animal Magnetism”

  1. Luv Bunny February 17, 2019 / 8:49 am

    I would have understood science class so much easier, if the teacher had used lopitrons and flopitrons. However I also would have been suspended for taking the “cute demonstrations” home. There must be something magnetic about that tan colored bun. I’m drawn to it and also the other two cute buns.

    • allein ? February 17, 2019 / 11:53 am

      One of my RAs in college actually did take one of her research subjects home. (She adopted a rat at the end of her psych lab. She was a sweetie named Rosie. Another friend later took her in when the RA went home to Greece and couldn’t take her.)

  2. AJ February 17, 2019 / 9:41 am

    Such cute bun buns and yes, Luv Bunny, science class would have made much more sense if they used these two to explain positive/negative attraction. I still scratch my head over how most of science works. All those numbers, all those equations, AGGHHH!

  3. debg February 17, 2019 / 10:44 am

    Mike, you should have been a science teacher–you make everything so clear!

    Gorgeous bunbuns with extra special bunliner.

    • Luv Bunny February 17, 2019 / 12:03 pm

      If Mike was a science teacher, that class would always be filled to capacity. But, when the students went onto further science classes, they could have trouble explaining a lopitron, flopitron, dimensional physics, or planetary maintence.

      • debg February 17, 2019 / 3:14 pm

        It would be worth it.

  4. Smartypants February 17, 2019 / 6:56 pm

    Is this normal bun behavior? Maybe they think s/he’s their mother? Too cute!

    • Luv Bunny February 17, 2019 / 7:14 pm

      Well, somewhat. At least for my bonded pair of buns, if they were cuddling and I slightly pulled them apart, they would be back together but not quite as quickly. Or if I move my Pepper slightly away from somewhere she shouldn’t be, she’ll go right back.

  5. Blue Footed Booby February 18, 2019 / 9:55 am

    I took three semesters of physics in college. I did ok, then in the third we got to a part where all the sidebar physicist bios were of Germans and none of the math made sense. From that point on it was all internal screaming and I dropped my goal of a physics minor.

  6. sugitomo February 18, 2019 / 2:35 pm

    So if you turned them around 180, would they repel each other?

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