Breckenridge 3: Rattus Norvegicus Traditional Geocache
rolfdenver: Sadly, I must archive this cache with 30 Favorites, because we just don't get up to Breckenridge much anymore. I hope someone else places a cache nearby worthy of the location. It was fun while it lasted!
Breckenridge 3: Rattus Norvegicus
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Log itself is in a bison tube, attached to a somewhat larger and more interesting container. Bring your own pen. Please replace carefully, and use stealth especially in season, and hide cache well when done. CONGRATULATIONS to heh324 and daughter for FTF 3/28/12!
The brown rat (Rattus Norvegicus) is really not from Norway, despite the species' Latin name. British novelist Charles Dickens acknowledged the misnomer in the 2 June 1888 edition of his weekly journal, All the Year Round, writing: "Now there is a mystery about the native country of the best known species of rat, the common brown rat. It is frequently called, in books and otherwise, the 'Norway rat', and it is said to have been imported into this country in a ship-load of timber from Norway. Against this hypothesis stands the fact that when the brown rat had become common in this country, it was unknown in Norway, although there was a small animal like a rat, but really a lemming, which made its home there."
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Purfg-uvtu uvqrl-ubyr.