Re: Rat Documented Swimming 400 meters

Algis Kuliukas wrote:
>
> 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.

A point you have expanded and over generalized without justification.
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