Experiment
  
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| Release date | 31 January 2005 (Update) |
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| Members? | Yes |
| Combat level | 25, 51 |
| Life points | 1000 (level 25), 400 (level 51) |
| Experience for killing | 400.5 xp (and 133 Constitution experience) |
| Slayer level | Not assigned |
| Aggressive? | No |
| Poisonous? | No |
| Immune to poison? |
No |
| Attack style | Melee |
| Attack speed | AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
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| Max hit | 19 (level 25) 70 (approx) (level 51) |
| Weakness | Fire spells, Crush, Slash |
| Always drops | Bones |
| Examine text | Sheep-dog/Spider-man: One of Fenkenstrain's failed experiments.
Wolf-woman: It has a key hanging from it's collar. |
Experiments can be found in the Experiment Cave, which can be accessed during Creature of Fenkenstrain quest. Completing the whole quest is not required to kill them, as you can simply push the farthest memorial from the castle and you will enter finding quite a few of them.
The level 25 experiments are the Sheep-dog (top of the picture) and the Spider-man (middle of the picture). These experiments' respawn time is approximately .07 seconds. There are seven Experiment spawns in the Experiment cave: four Sheep-dogs and three Spider-men.
The level 51 experiment is the Wolf-woman (bottom of the picture) and may only be killed once (unless you drop the cavern key obtained by killing it) during the Creature of Fenkenstrain quest. It is significantly stronger than the level 25 experiments, with a max hit of 70.
The level 25 versions' high HP, combined with their weak attack and defence, have made them popular for combat training, particularly among lower-level players. Experiments are the best NPC's to train on for level 1 defence pures.
They give 400 experience in the combat skill you're training, or 801 with sacred clay gear per kill. (Not including Magic, Dwarven Multicannons and Salamanders.)
Drops
100% drops
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Bones 1 Always 105
Other drops
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Experiment bone 1 Common <ref>only in Rag and Bone Man/Wish list</ref> Not sold 
Cavern key 1 Common <ref>only in a certain stage in Creature of Fenkenstrain</ref> Not sold 
Spin ticket 1 Rare Not sold
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Trivia
- The Sheep-dog may refer to the saying "A wolf in sheep's clothing", or possibly a sheep dog.
- Spider-man might be a reference to Spider-Man. It also closely resembles one of the mutant toys from the Pixar film Toy Story.
- When calculating combat level the only way this creature can have combat level 25 and 1000 LP, is if all of its other combat statistics are 1. This is reasonable as they have bad defence, rarely hit and have a max hit of 19.This is however dependant on whether RuneScape monsters without armour use the same combat calculating methods as players, and whether unofficial calculators are precisely accurate.
- When attempting to kill the level 51 Wolf-woman after obtaining the cavern key, a message appears saying: "You don't have the heart to kill the poor creature again."
- The heads and bodies of the experiments still have the old graphics.
- Even though the experiments are crossed between two monsters of different races, like sheep and wolf, they still drop regular bones.
- The head of the Spider-man appears similar to the old default head of a male PC (player-character).
- The head of the Spider-man also closely resembles the old graphic of dwarves if it is indeed a dwarf head it may be a parody reference to the dwarf-spider, a large poisonous spider it is found in both the USA and England (In England it is more commonly known as the money-spider).
- The Spider-man has a glitch where when walking on hills, part of its legs will seem to not be there.
- It seems that crush type attacks are more effective against the Spider-man, and slash attacks against the Sheep-dog.
- The Morytania task, "Lab Clean-up Assistant" requires that you kill an experiment.
- Even though the Spider-man has a human head, it makes spider noises instead of human noises when in combat.
- It is possible for Sheep-dog or Spider-man to respawn before it has been killed, resulting in two.
- The Spider-man drops bones despite the facts that spiders don't drop bones and the only part of it that's man is the head, which is only the skull.
- When killing the Sheep-dog it makes the same sound that your player would make when shooing a stray dog away in Varrock.