Proceedings: Animal Sciences

, Volume 89, Issue 3, pp 215–219 | Cite as

Responses ofRattus rattus L., to foods previously used in a mixture for poisoning with zinc phosphide

  • Devendra Bhardwaj
  • Jamil Ahmad Khan
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Abstract

Treatments of equivalent wt./wt. mixtures of foods-millet and maize flours, or millet, maize and wheat flours;-with zinc phosphide (4 mg/10 g food) not only make the ratsRattus rattus L. averse to eating the original baits, but also their components.

Practical implications of such association of ‘bait-shyness’ to components of the original baits, are discussed.

Keywords

Rattus rattus food preferences bait-shyness 

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© Indian Academy of Sciences 1980

Authors and Affiliations

  • Devendra Bhardwaj
    • 1
  • Jamil Ahmad Khan
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of ZoologyAligarh Muslim UniversityAligarhIndia

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