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The ring of convulsing and dead is a bit disconcerting…

• at_a_remove 3y ago
  One would think so, but ... I was on one of those investigative rabbitholes and stopped in at various rodent traps. One of the antiques was this contraption with eight holes, in a line, in which rats could stick their heads and be swiftly killed via your basic spring-loaded spinal injury. Anyway, you could have seven dead or dying rats, heads in, and another rat would clamber over the victims, both the twitching and the finally-still, just to stick its head in the only open hole. The presence of kin corpses and dying nestmates was an insufficient deterrent.
  • woleium 3y ago
    Rats are like that though, they will eat each other over plentiful food sometimes as well.