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heidler1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 04:04 PM
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Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It’s All in the Genes
Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It’s All in the Genes
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25rats.html?th&emc=th

Studying the genetics of domestication, Dmitri K. Belyaev developed colonies of silver foxes, river otters and minks, as well as rats, starting in 1959.


By NICHOLAS WADE

Published: July 25, 2006

On an animal-breeding farm in Siberia are cages housing two colonies of rats. In one colony, the rats have been bred for tameness in the hope of mimicking the mysterious process by which Neolithic farmers first domesticated an animal still kept today. When a visitor enters the room where the tame rats are kept, they poke their snouts through the bars to be petted.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 04:06 PM
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1. I can't read the rest of the article but I assume the untame rats
have been raised in Congress and the WH.
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