Post 1- History

Rats are a small furry gerbil. They have very strong teeth they can gnaw through steel and concrete. There biting pressure is 7,000 pounds per square inch.

One pair rats can make 15,000 little ones a year! Rats are sometimes eaten in emergency situations. In some cultures people consider rats as food. Bandicoot rats are an important food source in southeast Asia. Domestic pet rats are different from wild rats. They are calmer, and they have smaller brains, livers, kidneys, adrenal glands, and hearts. They breed earlier and produce more offspring. Rats are very smart and aggressive. Rats skeletons can fit through a hole a big as their skull. If you see a rat it probably is weak and can't fight off the other rats for food. The ones that hide in the day are a lot bigger and stronger.

Ancient Romans did not know the different between rats and mice. They would say "Mus Maximus" (big mouse) and "Mus Minimus" (little mouse). In the Chinese culture the rat was the first of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac. People that were born in the year of the rat were well to get along with monkeys and dragons but not horses.

The rat raised today for pets are descend from the Brown Rat because it is known as fancy.

That is my history post.