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Rats are a common food item for snakes, both in the wild, and as pets. Adult rat snakes and ball pythons , for example, are fed a diet of mostly rats in captivity. Rats are readily available (live or frozen) to individual snake owners, as well as to pet shops and reptile zoos, from many suppliers.
A near-blind albino rat with a guru-like guidance to the rats and the only one who can withstand Spider's mind control. Death of Rats Terry Pratchett: Hogfather: A rodent version of Death, who came into being when Death disappears during Reaper Man. Instead of a human skeleton, Death of Rats possesses a rodent skeleton. King Rat China Miéville ...
The book opens with Amazing Maurice (a sentient cat), a group of talking rats (the Clan), and the human boy Keith travelling in a mail coach to a small town called Bad Blintz. The group plans to enact a scheme they have used many times before, where in the rats pretend to infest the town and Keith poses as a rat piper to lead the "vermin" away ...
It is common for breeding wild brown rats to weigh (sometimes considerably) less than 300 g (11 oz). [18] [19] The heaviest live brown rat on record is 822 g (29 oz) and they can reach a maximum length of 48.5 cm (19 in). [20] Brown rats have acute hearing, are sensitive to ultrasound, and possess a very highly developed olfactory sense.
The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-519-7. Hendrickson, R. (1983). More Cunning than Man: A Complete History of the Rat and its Role in Civilization, Kensington Books. ISBN 1-57566-393-7. Hodgson, B. (1997). The Rat: A Perverse Miscellany. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9780898159264; Langton, J ...
Individual rats would rarely eat except in the company of other rats. As a result extreme population densities developed in the pen adopted for eating, leaving the others with sparse populations. In the experiments in which the behavioral sink developed, infant mortality ran as high as 96 percent among the most disoriented groups in the population.
Rats make absolutely wonderful and adorable pets, but one drawback to keeping them is that these little guys have pretty shirt lifespans, and domesticated rats usually only live two to four years.
"The Rats in the Walls" is loosely connected to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories; toward the end, the narrator notes that the rats seem "determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players."