Re: AI

G'day Ryan,

>I just can't figure out wy someone would want to study them for AI,
except
>maybe that they are a very successful form of life (over the long term
>anyway).

They're small, easy to look after (in comparison to many mammalian
predators at least) and have a fairly typical mammalian predator
foraging
behaviour which is linked to a fairly successful defense mechanism. I
think
they just happened to be the best combination of features in the
smallest
package for the study - the researcher may also have been a hedgehog fan
;)

Cheers

Beth

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