Summary
A SPECIES of rat coats itself in deadly toxin that it obtains by gnawing on a poisonous tree, scientists have discovered.
The Crested Rat, Lophiomys imhausi, from East Africa, is the first mammal known to acquire lethal toxin from a plant.See the full content of this document
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Rat Uses Tree Poison to Make Its Fur Deadly
The creature chews roots and bark of Acokanthera "poison arro...
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