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.

Materials: 3 hamsters 3 mazes treats

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 Food Emily: AM:10 seconds BM:07 seconds CM:07 seconds Bacon AM:18 seconds BM:14 seconds CM:6 seconds Fluffy AM:09 seconds BM:12 seconds CM:07 seconds With Food Emily AM: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.