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ALTHOUGH the animals in question are not rats, it may interest Mr. Romanes to hear that some years since a friend was on a railway journey in the north, having with him two large dogs. These were confined together in the brake-van. During the journey one of these dogs (a bull-dog) attacked and seriously injured the other (a retriever, if I remember rightly), although ordinarily they were very much attached to one another. My friend's idea was that the bull-dog became frightened at the motion of the train, which oscillated cobsiderably, and imagined that the other dog was the malefactor. This may be merely theory, but the case perhaps is worth noting.
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UNUS Ferocity of Animals. Nature 33, 560 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033560b0
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