| Show SHOWS SAGACITY OF THE RAT Method by Which Rodents Steal Eggs Is la Admirable in the Ingenuity ity Displayed A careful student of ot the rodent tribe writes No single point better Illustrates the sagacity of the rat than the way In which it eats an egg It bites through the shell and chips off small fragments as neatly as ns a squirrel rel opens a nut consumes consumeR the entire entire entire en en- tire contents without spilling a drop and then sits up and anti licks Itself clean like Ike a n cat Rats will steal the eggs from under a setting hen Their method of ot handling eggs Is also char chur- An egg is as os large for arat a arat rat rut as a n barrel Is for tor a n man and much more fragile Yet there is evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence of the fact luct that they pass eggs along from one to another although not probably as has bas often been reported reported reported re re- ported by forming long lines like a n bucket brigade The operation Is naturally naturally nat nat- a dl difficult one to observe but apparently It takes two rats to each egg One Ono holds the egg in Its paws passes it on to the other and then runs ahead to take it once more In Its turn The same device seems tobe to tobe tobe be employed to carry an nn egg downstairs downstairs downstairs down down- stairs the one that has the egg passing It to a companion standing on the step below |
