Rats are very difficult to poison because they nibble a little bit of a novel food, then wait a while before eating more. If they get sick, they develop conditioned taste aversion to the food. How could you develop a poison that would work for rats and avoid conditioned taste aversion?

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Alanna Melendez

15 August, 07:54

Rats are very difficult to poison because they nibble a little bit of a novel food, then wait a while before eating more. If they get sick, they develop conditioned taste aversion to the food. How could you develop a poison that would work for rats and avoid conditioned taste aversion?

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Joshua · Answer 1

You can combine a whole bunch of random stuff that might smell putrid and put it near cheese. They wil then run and save themselves, forcring them to make a shiel for itself.