Rats are small mammals in the order Rodentia that are exceptionally widespread and diverse around the world. People often use the word "rat" to refer to a variety of different rodents, especially those species that live in close symbiosis with humans, such as the house mouse (Mus musculus) an...
Meet two of the world's largest rats - one is long and one weighs... close to 4kg, to be exact. But there are more than 70 species of mice in the world, and the size of this most common rodent depends on where you are and how you measure it. You're most likely to encounte...
The "Five Fairies of Northeast China" usually refers to five wild animals, namely rats, mink, weasels, roe deer and mountain rabbits.Rats are small rodents that are widely distributed and include many species. In the Northeast, house mice and voles are very common.The mink is an excellent...
When talking about rats or mice, people always think of their bad habits such as stealing food, destroying crops, and even spreading diseases. The idiom "when a rat crosses the street, everyone shouts to beat it" fully expresses human beings' deep hatred for rats. However...
Recently, a blogger published a travel diary of Linghu Park in Anqing City, Anhui Province, saying that when he visited the Anqing Zoo in the park, he found that the zoo's two-climbing aquarium had a sign introducing "new animals" - one of the animals. It's a nine-pound rat....
Rats were born earlier than humans. According to paleontologists' research on fossils, primitive humans appeared in the Pliocene Epoch 1.2 million years ago, while rats appeared in the Oligocene Epoch 3.5 million years ago, 2.3 million years earlier than humans. Chinese a...
The species status of Pseudo-spiny rat is controversial, and it has long been considered a synonym of the needle-haired rat. The type locality of the needle-haired rat is Nepal, and the type locality of the Pseudo-spiny rat is Guadun, Fujian, and the two are far apart. Molecular phylogenetics confir...
The species status of this species is highly controversial. It has long been a synonym of Niviventer confucianus. Only recently has molecular systematic research confirmed its independent species status. This species is mainly distributed in areas above 2000m above sea level in Taiwan. The habitat a...
The species status of Andersen's white-bellied rat is stable, with three subspecies differentiation. In molecular systematics, it forms three obvious branches, but the boundaries of the branches are unclear and there is no one-to-one correspondence between the three subspecies.This species has b...
"The big rat, the big rat, has no food for me!... The dying woman is suitable for that paradise.""The rats in the official warehouse are as big as a bucket, and they won't leave even when someone opens a warehouse."These verses were all used by the ancients to ridicule corrup...