Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — Mouse Fights Snakes. [ARTICLE]

Mouse Fights Snakes.

Everyone has heard of the remarkable combats of the Indian mongoose with venomous snakes, in which little rfkfcitlkki-tavvl comes off victor. The fact that ttev’mongoose invariably survives has lad to fee suggestion that it is immune to snake poison. Otter animals said to be immune are Che pig and the hedgehog. The experiments of a British natwraliat show that an animal ufutte farm Misu famßr must be added to the list of immune. This animal is known ti the tarot and la said to fight fiercely with vipers. Large doses of vi* par's poison were injected into one tarot, from which Injection no ill effects followed. On one occasion a tarot was badly bitten in the eye by a vipor and no signs of poisoning fai- * ■ --T—- A—- •* -A ’