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