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- From: pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander)
- Subject: Re: Gratuitous Kills
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:31:56 GMT
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- In article <s0499528.48.0@let.rug.nl> s0499528@let.rug.nl (R. Dijkhuis) writes:
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- >This (rat) snake also had this thing about white mice, BTW. He just didn't
- >want to eat them. Has anybody got any idea why?
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- I don't know why, but I saw the same thing in my first Burmese python, a
- rather picky feeder. Give him a black rat, a hooded rat, and a white rat,
- and he'd take the black first, the hooded next, and then think about the
- white. I can't see smell having anything to do with it, as they were out of
- the same colony. I wonder if the snake would still differentiate between
- mice of different colors if the mice were dead and it was fed in a totally
- dark box. Experiment.
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- Paul Hollander pholland@iastate.edu
- Behold the tortoise: he makes no progress unless he sticks his neck out.
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