Word: ratting
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...decided to prove his point by breeding a strain of highly emotional rats, another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently...
...those who protest that rat emotions are not to be compared with human emotions, Dr. Hall replies that human psychology has evolved directly from animal psychology-and that if you do make such a protest "you are not really an evolutionist, and therefore your views deserve little serious consideration...
...Evanston, Ill., President Robert Donohoe of the Young Business Men's Club advertised for a "large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats." Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: "It's for the jail." A cat named Sergeant...
Beside the consul and his consort, soon there were living at the comfortable Hughes-Hallett establishment in Detroit's Indian Village, three white rats named Mehitabel, Ermyntrude and Sonia; a special brown-and-black-spotted rat called...
...News's 3,000,000 readers have been profoundly apathetic to these revelations, even when Publisher Patterson gave them front page headlines on rat news at the height of the German pogroms. Reaction of scientists has ranged from cool to openly hostile. When Publisher Patterson tried to talk about his big story to a pretty nurse in his doctor's office she exclaimed: "Oh, rats-we tried that at Johns Hopkins . . . and it can't be done...