Janet Baraclough wrote:
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Somewhere I've a book which includes a pic of a couple of rats
carrying-off a large egg. One at is hugging the egg while the other rat
drags the egg-hugger by the tail.


IIRC it's in Beatrix Potter :-) Possibly the one where some dastardly
animal tried to make a roly-poly pudding out of Tom Kitten. I really
hated BP books because the animals were so horrible to each other.


that is called amthropomorphism or similar! its when animals are
characterised as being human, that is why they are so nasty to each
other to be like us! its done to aliens in scifi and "god" all the time

andrew












Janet