This Rat Found the Ultimate Exercise Wheel, Is Also a Metaphor for Futility

This video shows a rat attempting to run down an upward moving escalator in the San Francisco Civic Center BART station. The sad music in the background really sets the tone as one singular rodent faces insurmountable odds as it tries to get home. Or maybe it’s just exercising. Either way, it’s fairly hypnotic.

(via Jonathan Beilin)

Meanwhile in related links

• A new theory says rats, not humans, responsible for Easter Island
• Brain-to-brain connection established between humans and rats
• This mouse won’t let you tell it how to use its exercise wheel