Nine Years Without Food But Still “Ticking”
How he had.kept a ,tick alive in a jar for nine and a-half years without allp.wing it anything to feed upon, was related by Dr. T. Davis, of the Research Institute of Montana, U.S.A., to a "Chronicle" reporter yesterday. He said he had kept the air in J the jar at a certain humidity and j that appeared to he all that was necessary to keep it alive. However, in a second experhnent with another tick, it had died in its tenth year.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 February 1949, Page 4
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90Nine Years Without Food But Still “Ticking” Chronicle (Levin), 16 February 1949, Page 4
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