801: Must Be Rats on the Brain
This American Life
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The Importance of Sex Between Rats
This is another story that you guys organized for us. We all got some microphones we set it up in a real rat's nest so this is going to be a real treat. Male rats sometimes eat baby rats and when they've studied this with a lot of rats they've found that the males are less likely to eat their own babies. Scientists have theorized that female rats might choose to mate with lots of males to protect their own pups from being eaten. The story acknowledges that existence is a sex between mammals.
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