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Letter: Hungry rescue rats

Published 20 October 2004

From Dewi Morgan

The idea of rescue rats trained to locate trapped survivors is appealing (25 September, p 21). However, I note that the design has feedback only to the pleasure area of the rats’ brains, not to the “don’t eat that, it tastes vile” area, if there is such a thing.

Which leads one to ask what the first instinct of a rat will be on finding a wounded, immobilised person?

London, UK

Issue no. 2470 published 23 October 2004

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