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Nature 438, 282 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438282c; Published online 16 November 2005
Intelligent, social rat can find joy in a hostile world
Jonathan Balcombe1
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 5100 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington DC 20016, USA
One has to admire the guile and tenacity of the lone rat described by James Russell and colleagues ("Intercepting the first rat ashore", Nature 437, 1107; 2005). This rat lived for ten weeks on a small, booby-trapped island, visited by trained rat-killing dogs, before swimming a quarter of a mile to a neighbouring island, where he survived a further two months of concerted efforts to eliminate him.
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