Spiky Rat Uses Plant Poison to Turn Its Hair Deadly

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

An African rat chews poison bark, then wears the deadly drool—making the rodent the first animal known to apply external lethal poison.

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