Mousetrap evolution

• Autores: Rachel David
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3032, 2015, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • David looks at the evolution of mousetraps that was captured by photographers Heidi and Hans-Jurgen Koch. Some went for the brutal route exemplified by the classic snap trap, patented in 1894 by William C. Hooker, orthe similar "Little Nipper," patented in 1899 by James Henry Atkinson. Others designed more creative death traps, using nails to crush or stab the captured mouse, wires to strangle it or a block of wood to crush it. The humane trap was the brainchild of Austin Kness in the 1920s, who designed a mousetrap that could capture several live mice without using bait. The German mash-pot trap is an example of this, using a flour-covered ladder to entice the mouse to fall into the open mash-pot