Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

[Marlin]

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator


https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particle-accelerator-fermilab

[GLW]

1971 vs 2019


from the article:


Faced with a recalcitrant ferret, the scientists reassigned her to a section of 12-inch-wide tubes in the Meson Lab, a testing facility that was still under construction. "She was taught to scamper through progressively longer tunnels until she was ready to try one of the 300-foot sections that will be joined together to make the Meson Lab's tubes," Time noted.

1971 - animal trainers are cool people with cool jobs


2019 - "hold a demonstration to inform the public that demeaning stunts performed by animals in the ring are the result of behind-the-scenes abuse."


https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/circuses/