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

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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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  1. Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 001, Aligarh, India

    Devendra Bhardwaj & Jamil Ahmad Khan

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Bhardwaj, D., Khan, J.A. Responses ofRattus rattus L., to foods previously used in a mixture for poisoning with zinc phosphide. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Anim. Sci.) 89, 215–219 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179162

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