Huge Rat!
- Thread starter Gunslinger
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Here's a bit of rat trivia. During the Korean war the Chinese offered their POWs a cigarette for every rat that they caught as part of camp hygiene.
Apparently the Turks made out best as they kept and bred them and then turned in the young at birth. 
So they really did give a rat's ass after all.
Apparently the Turks made out best as they kept and bred them and then turned in the young at birth. So they really did give a rat's ass after all.
Ahsan Ahmed
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I've seen that size in the rice fields of SE Asia. Literally, almost the size of a cat and can do immense damage to crop. No cat in its right mind would dare take on something in that dimension at least the ones that I've seen.
We carried along a singleshot full choked .410 in addition during Snipe hunting to deal with as many as we encountered in the fields and the farmers much appreciated that.
at least the ones that I've seen. We carried along a singleshot full choked .410 in addition during Snipe hunting to deal with as many as we encountered in the fields and the farmers much appreciated that.
They use rats like that to help screen blood samples for certain diseases... Tuberculosis I think.
Rats have an increible sense of smell. At a research facility in Africa, scientists train rats to detect the smell of the TB virus in blood samples. They have found that the rats can accurately detect it, and it is far cheaper and faster then any conventional techniques.
Check this out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRvdyuHxdE
Rats have an increible sense of smell. At a research facility in Africa, scientists train rats to detect the smell of the TB virus in blood samples. They have found that the rats can accurately detect it, and it is far cheaper and faster then any conventional techniques.
Check this out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRvdyuHxdE
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- Winnipeg,Man.
Those rats were also used to detect unexploded ordinance in Vietnam rice fields after the war was over. Some places in Africa to find land mines.
Actually they are now useing rats to detect landmines in Cambodia Now.
The South Africans where the ones who developed this technique iirc from Discovery Channel.
The size of the rat and the ability to smell and train are far greater and cheaper than to use a well trained dog.
It all boils down to $$$.
It is a very Cool picture and hmmm, a .458 Lott you say???
Rob
Glock4ever
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- Edmonton, AB
Yuck!
