rattus

Most of the rats, it turns out, are not exotic jungle species but the common black rat, Rattus rattus, which is native to Southwest Asia.

Waiting for the Plague Shoumatoff, Alex 2007

(Is anyone else surprised to hear the Latin for rat is "rattus"?

post-gazette.com - News 2010

But give rattus norvegicus bullhormones and a steady proteinrich diet and im sure it will make a better pet than thees ones: P and THEY will keep the yotes away too: P: D

Chihuahua vs. Cougar 2009

But give rattus norvegicus bullhormones and a steady proteinrich diet and im sure it will make a better pet than thees ones: P and THEY will keep the yotes away too: P: D

Chihuahua vs. Cougar 2009

Most extant examples are formed from black rats (R. rattus).

Boing Boing 2008

They die within a day; their lifespan is accelerated because time works on them differently, just as time works differently on a Galapagos tortoise and a Rattus rattus.

BLANKENSHIP & DAWES IN: CHRONO-CONUNDRUM! • by Jens Rushing 2008

Ship rats Rattus rattus seem to be especially prone to this, forming non-interbreeding populations with differing chromosome counts, more or less overnight.

How to make a snake - The Panda's Thumb 2010

The only find involving sawah rats (Rattus rattus brevicaudatus) occurred on March 23, 1918, in Bogor on Java, where a rat king of ten young field rats was found.

Boing Boing 2008

Mammalian introductions have occurred periodically in this region and include species such as agouti (Dasyprocta agouti), fallow deer (Dama dama) to provide game, the indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) and the inadvertent importation of rats (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus).

Guadeloupe 2009

For America, it was the rattus norvegicus or Norway Rat, who arrived, “in the first year of the Revolution.”

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