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IT is, I believe, pretty generally supposed that rats and mice use their tails for feeding purposes in cases where the food to be eaten is contained in vessels too narrow to admit the entire body of the animal. I am not aware, however, that the truth of this supposition has ever been actually tested by any trustworthy person, and so think that the following simple experiments are worth publishing.
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ROMANES, G. Tails of Rats and Mice. Nature 12, 515 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012515a0
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