By utilizing the same plants that African tribesmen use to poison their arrows, the furry fury known as the African crested rat can ************ and even **** predators many times its size, researchers have found.
"This is the first mammal that is borrowing a deadly poison from a plant and slathering it on itself without dying," said study researcher Jonathan Kingdon, of Oxford University in England. "This is an extraordinary thing to have evolved."
Growing up in Africa, Kingdon was frequently exposed to these rats, even keeping one (very cautiously) as a pet. He had heard this ****** was poisonous, but it look 30 years for him to figure out how and why this special ****** ***** and sickens its predators.
