This article was interesting because it was talking about rats, and rats are gross!!! But hey I never knew that rats would actually be smart enough to hide there self and blend in with the tree bark.
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August 20, 2011
RAT APPLIES POISON FOR DEFENSE
Alexius A. -- The African Rats, they can nearly kill you!! There super unique because well they have homosapiens are the only 2 mammals who use plants to make their poisons. Its like the one of the only mammals that is there poison that they don’t make or produce there self. The rats defends itself by painting it self to blend in. The researchers think that the rats had toxic dense system because the skunks and how there color pattern is really similar. Also the rats eat branch's and roots and other stuff like that.
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