![]() ![]() ![]() Rattus norvegicus is one of the approximately four hundred different kinds of rodents, and it is known by many names, each of which describes a trait or a perceived trait or sometimes a habitat: the earth rat, the roving rat, the barn rat, the field rat, the migratory rat, the house rat, the sewer rat, the water rat, the wharf rat, the alley rat, the gray rat, the brown rat, and the common rat. I offer a portrait that is hysteria-free, that merely describes the rat as a rat.Ī rat is a rodent, the most common mammal in the world. ![]() So, with this in mind, I offer a brief introductory sketch of the particular species of rat that runs wild in New York- Rattus norvegicus, aka the Norway or brown rat. What B about rats? And so, as I arise from my selfishness to describe the wild rat of New York City, the object of this nature experiment, I begin by noting that when it comes to rats, men and women labor under a lot of misinformation-errors inspired, it seems to me, by their own fears, by their own mental rat profiles rather than any earth-based facts. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT YOU, I think I hear the reader protesting. ![]()
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