Maternal Ingenuity.
, A female rat had the misfortune to be caught ,alive in a Philadelphia trap not long ago, and the following day she presented her captor with ifive small pledges. One of these escaped and Jran into a bottle from which it could not get ■out owing to the smoothness of its prison walls. ■There it was found, and the old rat and bottled ivoung one were placed together in a cage. iSince that time the mother has fed her offspring by dropping bits of food down the neck of the bottle and quenched its thirst by sticking into the same orifice her tail dripping with .water from the pan provided for her own use.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 29
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116Maternal Ingenuity. Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 29
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