Giant rat kills predators with poisonous hair

Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

By utilizing the same plants that African tribesmen use to poison their arrows, the furry fury known as the African crested rat can incapacitate and even kill predators many times its size, researchers have found.

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