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Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#26: Dec 9th 2011 at 9:02:00 AM

Well, apparently the conditioned reflex of a rat seeing another rat in danger is to panic and run away. It says it took several weeks before they felt safe enough to approach the container. So whatever they were doing, it was learned behavior rather than pure instinct.

edited 9th Dec '11 9:02:51 AM by Clarste

captainbrass2 from the United Kingdom Since: Mar, 2011
#27: Dec 9th 2011 at 12:02:04 PM

You realise this now ruins every movie gangster from Jimmy Cagney on who ever complained about "dirty, double-crossing rats."

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