COLOURED FURS.
experiments on animals.
RABBITS AND KANGAROQS.
MOSCOW, Jan. 35.
Kangaroos and rabbits are engaging the attention of the Soviet in .an attempt to create the createst nursery of fur-bearing animals in Europe on a 2000-acre farm at Maikop. Professor llv - in cliiims tha.t by the aid of dieting and mineral salts, associated with varying temperatures, he is able, to make either black or white rabbits shed their fur and grow a beautiful coat of a different colour. He expects similar success with kangaroos, of which he has secured 2CO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21098, 4 February 1932, Page 9
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