LIVING ON RUBBER.
The rubber slug is one of the many pests of rubber plantations. It attacks the young trees and feeds on the juice oozing from the cuts. Doubt having been cast on the suggestion that any animal could subsist on rubber, a saucerful of juice was placed before some rubber slugs, who lapped it up like a cat lapping up milk. Scientists have come to the conclusion that this slug contains some rubberdigesting ferment as a gastric juice.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 7
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80LIVING ON RUBBER. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 7
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