{"607456":{"#nid":"607456","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sexual pleasure might help us learn \u2013 if rats are any guide","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow do rats know when their partners are feeling amorous? One way female rats show they\u0026rsquo;re feeling frisky is to wiggle their ears \u0026ndash; or rather, very rapidly shake their head, so that it looks like their ears are moving. So when \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/lecturer\/626\u0022\u003EMary Holder\u003C\/a\u003E, a neuroscientist working at the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech, sees lady rats wiggling their ears, she knows they\u0026rsquo;re ready to mate. To the casual observer, studying ear wiggling in rats might seem trivial, but rat sex is actually crucial in improving our understanding of sexual behaviors in mammals.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-02 17:07:09","changed_gmt":"2018-07-02 17:12:46","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Terry Maple","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/07\/01\/sexual-pleasure-might-help-us-learn-if-rats-are-any-guide_partner\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"607458":{"id":"607458","type":"image","title":"Mary Holder","body":null,"created":"1530551541","gmt_created":"2018-07-02 17:12:21","changed":"1530551541","gmt_changed":"2018-07-02 17:12:21","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231714","name":"2018 Mary Holder.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Mary%20Holder.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Mary%20Holder.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":56000,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Mary%20Holder.jpg?itok=5UslcMPK"}}},"media_ids":["607458"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"178462","name":"sexual behavior in rats"},{"id":"178463","name":"Mary Holder"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}