It is not a rejection from the journal. II'm afraid that the submission to the new journal willwould generate the new embarrassing comments.
I suggest to resubmitresubmitting to the same journal with justification ofjustifications for the measurements and explainexplaining again the purpose of the experiment, and why we did not perform the behavioral tests.
The discussion can be shortened.
I don’t think that it is necessary to do the behavioral tests now. They will take a long time and I'm not sure that they will improve the article.