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Letter: You dirty rat

Published 21 October 2009

From Mark Allan Barnes

In Henry Nicholls’s article on taming wild animals, I was intrigued to read that “You can do anything with the tame rats… you can move their arms and legs” (3 October, p 40).

Did those rats that were bred to be aggressive also have arms? Was there interest from the military in the idea of equipping them with tiny weapons?

Cholsey, Oxfordshire, UK

Issue no. 2731 published 24 October 2009

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