Then we were led around a corner to a pool and terrace filled with 28 of our closest friends all holding glasses of champagne.
As a test of this proposal, Gilroy and Pearce (2014) conducted a series of experiments similar to Experiments 1 and 2, with placement training being conducted in one corner of a square pool with distinctive walls.
In one experiment by Gilroy and Pearce, for example, rats were repeatedly placed on a submerged platform in one corner of a square pool constructed from the three white walls, and one black wall.
The next one did overlook the savannah, but the view also included a corner of the pool patio: a sure fantasy-killer if you are imagining yourself at Kilimanjaro.
One set of experiments has involved training rats to find a submerged platform located in one corner of a rectangular swimming pool.
A measure of support for this proposal can be found in an experiment by Jones et al. (2007) in which rats were required to find a submerged platform positioned in the acute-angled corner of a kite-shape pool.
In Experiment 1, rats were passively trained to discriminate between the corners of a rectangular pool.
And the next one describes seeing a hedgehog: "There was my comrade, with his nose pressed in a corner in a pool of tears".
Robert Mirabal, in one corner of the pool, beats a drum in a loud, urgent pulse: the implication of a rapid heartbeat maintains a powerful sense of alarm throughout what follows.
First I'd check out the merchandise table, then I'd buy some watermelon and eat it near a corner of the pool, then I'd walk around repeatedly in a horseshoe shape, trying not to look at all the jiggling belly flesh on the Slip 'n Slide".
