HOW RATS MOVE EGGS
Strange as the story may appear of ruts removing hens' eggs from the bottom to the top of a. house by one rat lying on his back arid grasping tightly liis ovoid burden with his fore-paws, while his comrades drag him away by the. tail, 1 have no reason, write? a naturalist to disbelieve it. I have seen i two brown rats accomplish the fe.it from stair to stair in a farmhouse in Banffshire, the first anxious rodent pushing (he egg up on its hind-legs, and 11,0 second assistant lifting it up with its fore-legs. It was the best athletic feat I ever witnessed., but it was not mit of the common. The rat will extract (he contents from :\ flask of Florence oil. dipping i" bis long tail, and repealing the manoeuvre until he has consumed all that can lie reached.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19081107.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 270, 7 November 1908, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
145HOW RATS MOVE EGGS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 270, 7 November 1908, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in