The suggestion by Pinel (1972) that ultrasonic sound might serve as a rat control method by its properties as an aversive and seizure-producing stimulus is evaluated in light of data on the complexity of audiogenic seizures and selective breeding for noise escape behavior in rats. It is proposed that the rat may have sufficient genetic diversity to result in a population of rats which neither escape from high-intensity sounds nor die as a result of the sound.
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