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(#10) Their Communities Have Leaders
Forget everything you ever heard about rats making great pets. These conniving critters don’t belong in a cage. They belong in society - their society, not ours. Yes, rats are of the few species of rodent that maintain a sophisticated social structure complete with leaders, assistant leaders, outcasts and rebels. Could that be where the term Rat King came from?
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(#7) They Know How To Memorize
One of the things that makes rats so intelligent is their talent for memorization. This isn’t exactly good news for rat trap setters as they tend to instinctively remember where traps are and avoid them at all costs. According to one study, rats can remember maze patterns to a greater extent than humans can recall casually exchanged telephone numbers.
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(#8) They Can Chew Their Way Into And Smell Their Way Out Of Anything
According to extensive research, a rat’s teeth are tougher than copper and iron, possibly stronger than the Man of Steel, even (Yes, Superman. He does not have teeth this tough. We’re sure of it). As such, rats can chew their way into brick, wood, plastic, asbestos, you name it. Once inside your dwelling space, they can smell their way out of anything from land mines to garbage. Not that it would matter since feeding on garbage only serves to increase their super strength.
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(#4) Some Rats Have Pouches Like Kangaroos
The giant pouched rat can grow up to 18 inches in length and weighs a little over three pounds. This particular subspecies is responsible for spreading the monkey pox and is therefore not ideal as pets. Here’s a bizarro-world fact about this rat - in addition to its easily identifiable pouch, it can also smell tuberculosis, a feature that’s astonishingly more accurate and speedy than scientific testing.
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(#1) Rats Can Never Stop Chewing Because If They Stop Chewing They Die
In case you were wondering how or why rats never stop chewing the answer is simple: teeth. A rat can live for up to seven years and for that entire time their teeth are in a continuous state of growth. In order to keep them healthy and sharp, and, of course, to avoid certain death caused by overgrown teeth, rats must chew on anything and everything they find.
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(#5) Others Grow To Be The Size Of A House Cat
The largest rats encountered in modern times are two-and-a-half feet long and weigh a little over four pounds, making them about the size of a house cat or lap dog. These giant rodents, known as Mallomys Gunug, have set up shop along the mountainside of western New Guinea and love island habitats. That being said, there are several other noteworthy giant rats that awe scientists. Among them is the aforementioned pouched rat along with the Northern Luzon giant cloud rat. If you think these modern giant rats sound scary, hold on to your pesticide because the rats of yesteryear were even bigger according to archeologists who are recovering fossils of presumably extinct colossal rodents that would blow your mind.
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There are about 480 species of rats in the world, and they can be seen indoors and in nature. They are the fastest reproductive and highly viable animals among mammals. Rats often appear in dirty places such as sewers, toilets, garbage dumps, and spread pathogens through rat feet, body hair, and excrement. This is why humans hate rats in the traditional sense.
In fact, there are now more and more different species of rodents becoming popular pets, they are different from the above-mentioned rats that most people hate. The random tool introduced 11 fun facts about rats that you might never know.
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