Re: Rat Documented Swimming 400 meters
- From: "Algis Kuliukas" <algis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Oct 2005 06:33:11 -0700
Rich Travsky wrote:
> 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.
More aquatic than chimps, which is, of course, the whole point - a
point you keep pretending away and misrepresenting even after all these
years.
Algis Kuliukas
.
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