Snatching Eggs
In which Rat tests old wisdom
Good time of day, humans!
Rats are always looking to learn new tricks. Recently they got their paws on an old book which described an interesting method of snatching eggs:
Source: Alfred Brehm, Life of Animals (1890s), p. 335
Rats immediately proceeded to put this to test.
…or perhaps dragging a rat against the hair never worked «with apparent ease».
Dragging a rat against the hair is a sure method of rubbing it up the wrong way…
You assumed the rat was supine. Perhaps he just wrapped from the top and the egg was slid on its slippery solid surface with the first rat functioning as a harness?