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THE MIDDLE LANE

id you know that baby rats learn table manners from big It’s true. In the Nineties, research with black rats demonstrated that the neatest method of eating pine cones is passed down through rat generations not genetically, but through social imitation. Without the foggiest idea they’re doing so, rat babies get etiquette lessons from their rat elders.

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