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MR. NICOLS says, in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 433:—“A ship's carpenter told me that, in the old days, before the use of iron tanks on board ship became general, the rats used to attack the water-casks, cutting the stave so thin that they could suck the water through the wood without actually making a hole in it. If any one could substantiate this it would have an important bearing on the question under consideration”.
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DARWIN, C. Rats and Water-Casks. Nature 19, 481 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019481b0
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