This LRB bit on rats is a good read: > ‘Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,’ an exterminator told Mitchel

This LRB bit on rats is a good read: > ‘Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,’ an exterminator told Mitchell sixty years ago. ‘A trap means nothing to them, no matter how skilfully set. They just kick it around until it snaps; then they eat the bait. And they can detect poisoned bait a yard off. I believe some of them can read.’ https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/sean-wilsey/some-of-them-can-read https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/sean-wilsey/some-of-them-can-r...