Thursday, 2 October 2014

Brown Rat Facts

Brown Rat Facts
Brown Rat Facts
Rats are surprisingly interesting creatures. Did you know that they can communicate by vibrating their eyes?  No?  Neither did we.  They also communicate using their tails and by chattering teeth.  They are unable to sweat and use their tails for temperature regulation by contracting or relaxing the blood vessels.

Amazingly enough they can survive being flushed down the toilet and are even able to re-enter the house via the same route.  They are very good swimmers.

Their teeth grow continuously throughout their lives, at a rate of about 5 inches per year.  They need to be constantly gnawing on hard materials to keep them short; this is one of the reasons they do much damage.  Hammer Technologies have come up with a new way of creating a safe zone around your car to keep rats away. You will save yourself a significant amount of time and money if you visit their site.  A paper in 2009 showed that rats do more than nine billion dollars worth of damage in the US alone.  The actual figure in likely to be more than this now.

The rat is the first sign of the Chinese zodiac and people born under this sign are considered to have the characteristics of a rat.

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