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WALTZING

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MOUSE (or
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JAPANESE WALTZING MOUSE)  , a pied
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race of the
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house
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mouse (
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Mus musculus), or one of its
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allies, originally bred in
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China, and known in
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Japan as the Nankin mouse . The
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habit of these mice of
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spinning
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round and round after their tails is highly
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developed, and continually exercised . In Japan, where there were originally two breeds, a
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grey and a
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white, these mice are kept in cages on
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account of their dancing propensities . The dancing was at one
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time supposed to be due to a disease of the
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labyrinth of the
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ear; but Dr K . Kishi, in a
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paper in the Zeitschrift
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fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie (vol. xxi. pt . 3), concludes that it is the effect of confinement for untold centuries in small cages .

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