{"id":122147,"date":"2020-11-28T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-toxic-rat-that-figured-out-how-to-kill-an-elephant\/"},"modified":"2020-11-28T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T15:18:22","slug":"meet-the-toxic-rat-that-figured-out-how-to-kill-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-toxic-rat-that-figured-out-how-to-kill-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the toxic rat that figured out how to kill an elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Meet the toxic rat that figured out how to kill an elephant<\/strong>”
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\n This is no pizza rat that grabs the goods and runs.<\/p>\n

The African crested rat has a personality so toxic that it chews on a poisonous tree, flings the nuggets onto its back, where the venom hides in special, texturized hairs until the next predator \u2014 hyena or wild dog \u2014 shows up, the New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An elephant can even be felled by this rodent, the world\u2019s only killer rat, which new research by Utah biologist Sara Weinstein confirms has the bravado of a heavyweight champ.<\/p>\n

The rat certainly has \u201cthe personality of something that knows it\u2019s poisonous,\u201d Weinstein told the Times.<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s study, published in the Journal of Mammology<\/a>, builds on a 2011 study<\/a> that described the rat\u2019s poisons but found only one \u2014 in captivity \u2014 that did the gnaw-and-spit move. She and her team were able to establish a pattern by videotaping 25 of the critters they had trapp<\/a>ed and brought back to the lab.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t think the rats are only nasty all the time.<\/p>\n

The scientists discovered the rodents are sweeties sometimes \u2014 some males and females went steady and even shared child care.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Meet the toxic rat that figured out how to kill an elephant” This is no pizza rat that grabs the goods and runs. The African crested rat has a personality so toxic that it chews on a poisonous tree, flings the nuggets onto its back, where the venom hides in special, texturized hairs until the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/201128-african-crested-rat2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82056,71789,76103,61514,82089],"class_list":["post-122147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-28-20","tag-poison","tag-rats","tag-research","tag-rodents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}