Spiky Rat Uses Plant Poison to Turn Its Hair Deadly
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 09:00
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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