rats

     

50 species; see text

Trivia about rats

  • These rodents first got to America by stowing away on ships
  • German physicist & Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch found that these rodents conveyed the black plague
  • Strains of the Norway species of this animal are the ones used in labs
  • In buildings, Norway variety of this animal tends to live on lower floors while black kind lives upstairs
  • The Pied Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of these pests
  • If these are "deserting the sinking ship", you might want to get off
  • In Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "Out of the houses" these "came tumbling", great, small, lean, brawny...
  • The Asian cobra lives on these rodents, which might make it a good plague controller
  • In "The English Cat", a cat is a president of the R.S.P.R.--The Royal Society for Protection of these rodents
  • I believe these were the cause of the missing produce on the White Star Line's flagship
  • In room 101 Smith faces these creature, "The worst thing in the world"