Rat Documented Swimming 400 meters
- From: Rich Travsky <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:28:47 -0600
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4356980.stm
The swimming ability of a rat which crossed open sea to find new
territory has impressed New Zealand scientists.
The rodent had been radio tagged and its movements tracked by
researchers to learn more about pest species and how they invade
small islands.
The rat was released on the uninhabited island of Motuhoropapa but
refused to be captured at the project's end.
The NZ team tells Nature magazine the animal finally turned up on
the nearby Otata Island - a mighty swim of 400m.
James Russell, from the University of Auckland, and colleagues think
this may be the longest distance recorded for a rat swimming across
open sea.
"Norway rats can supposedly swim up to 600m but, to our knowledge,
this is the first record of a rat swimming hundreds of metres across
open water," they write.
...
Obviously, rats are aquatic.
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