Science: A Peek at Peekers

Wherever men go, there go rats. From treetops, from roofs and out of small. dark holes, rats watch most of men's activities. But thus far the private lives of rats have been more or less hidden from most men. Last week the U.S. Public Health Service was preparing to publicize the rat's privacy; almost finished was a series of PHS movies about the rat's domestic life.

The actors in the film are wild rats, which are nothing like the tame, bored white rats of laboratories. The films were shot by Signal Corps cameramen on...

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