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IF your correspondent in last week's NATURE (p. 583) will treat a wild rat in the way which I described, the animal will answer his question much more effectually than I can. For while I have only words at my dmsp sal whereby to convey any “ejective” information upon the subject, the rat will display the fact of his understanding your correspondent's intention by a thousand co-ordinated movements of a much more eloquent kind.
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ROMANES, G. Ferocity of Animals. Nature 33, 604 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033604c0
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