Title: The effect of treats on hamsters when completing

the mazes.

Question: How will treats affect how fast the hamsters will

complete the maze.

Hypothesis: We think that the hamsters will complete the maze

faster with food then without food.

• Background Information: Hamster are native to Syria and were used for research. In 1948 Albert Marsh, a highway engineer, introduced them as pets. They are chunky-bodied, thick-furred, short-tailed rodents with cheek pouches and are secretive burrowers and hoarders. Being nocturnal creatures, they usually sleep during the day and play and explore at night.

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Materials:3 hamsters3 mazestreats

Procedure:1: Build the 3 mazes 

2: Put hamster in the maze without the food. 3: Start timer.

4: When the hamsters find the exit stop timer.

5: Record the time.6: Do this over and over for all three

hamsters 7: After you finish you do these steps over and over again but put the treats at the end

of the mazes.

Results: Without FoodEmily: AM:10 seconds BM:07 secondsCM:07 seconds Bacon AM:18 seconds BM:14 seconds CM:6 seconds Fluffy AM:09 secondsBM:12 seconds CM:07 seconds With Food EmilyAM:14 seconds BM:14 seconds CM:06 seconds Bacon AM:13 seconds BM:39 seconds CM:18 seconds Fluffy AM:10 seconds BM:26 seconds 

Discussion: our groups hypothesis is not supported by the results because the hamsters completeted the maze faster with no food. With the food the hamster went a little bit slower.