Show WOOD RATS HAVE BUILDING CODE further credence 0 to o the theory the animals havo have their own social practices Is contained in a special scientific paper on the newly dis covered members of the white throated wood rat family by stephen phen D durrant instructor of zoo at the university of utah B by y some strange arrangement arrange merli it would seem that these industrious rodents have to stake their chatma to territory and then observe the taboos of territory rights just all 04 the minor miner and tho the homesteader homestead en must do mr durrant was led to his study of oc this territory right phenomenon on a university of utah scion title expedition in castle valley last summer when ho he noticed that the tat rat mounds three feet will high and about seven feet in diameter were spaced roughly equidistant as it by some minimum distance arrangement orran ran gement further investigation showed that tunnels leading out prom from the main mound center did not extend into verboten ver boten terri tory hence no underground violation of surface rights aside from being a good neighbor neof coma albi a gula for so he ha to a known to science has another reason tor for getting into print ile he Is a newly discovered species of the albl gula group lot lof rats |