The rat was released on the uninhabited island of Motuhoropapa but refused to be captured at the project's end.
The NZ team tells Nature magazine the animal finally turned up on the nearby Otata Island - a mighty swim of 400m
James Russell, from the University of Auckland, and colleagues think this may be the longest distance recorded for a rat swimming across open sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4356980.stm
The NZ team tells Nature magazine the animal finally turned up on the nearby Otata Island - a mighty swim of 400m
James Russell, from the University of Auckland, and colleagues think this may be the longest distance recorded for a rat swimming across open sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4356980.stm
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