Rats Living

Rats can attack to your house structure and can cause serious damage. How rats work to break your house is not suddenly happened but rat is very passion to break your house to small pieces. Rat works on the night and she work with patient and have certain goal, to make a hole or to build a nest for her to bird. Rats also know when she will bird and she prepare it very tidy and the target must reach in time.

There are several kind of rats there is sewer rat that classified as a rodent, and rat that often stay in up. Rat are nocturnal, although they can sometimes be seen during the day. They are active burrowers, good climbers and reasonably good swimmers (often leading to confusion with water voles). Rat have bad eyesight but have acute hearing and a good sense of smell and taste. Rat are capable of reproducing at 3 – 4 months old, and have 3 – 6 litters per year, depending upon food availability and location.

The rat are together with their family and contact with human beings. Rats generally move to buildings in autumn and winter for shelter and food, but rat in tropical area is moved to other place if there no food anymore on that location. Within their habitats, rats burrow into earth banks, compost heaps and the structure of building and sewers. Cat also will break wood structure, like on the roof, cupboard, windows and door.

Rats are favor to live in:

•  Under wood pile or lumber that is not use soon. 
•  On the bushes and vines where she will build a burrow.
•  In appliances and old furniture that is left outside and is not being used. 
•  In around garbage and trash that has been left out.
•  Inside the wall insulation and on the roof
•  Behind the cupboard, counter and bathtubs
•  In basements or attics where thing like cardboards and cloth are stored.

The Smartest Rat

You may have read a smart rat story from fames and may from novel book or from film about smart rat. Many kind of smart rat story like on cartoon film Mickey Mouse or Tom and Jerry. The scientist also have skittered through movies and books such as Flowers for Algemon and the Secret of NIMH, but all are just a fiction.

The laboratoty experiment have test to the rat smart by traveling task through mazes using partial clues to find rewards, a key method for measuring the rat intelligence. Scientists are too far to try their hobbies to the rat, I think. The rat name Hobbie J when still an embryo at the Medical College of Georgia injected her with genetic material that caused the over expression of the gene NR2B which helps control the rat at which brain cells communicate.

This injection make rat brain cells to communicate for a whisker of second longer than those normal rats. This effect can be concluded as that rat is smarter than the average rat.

NR2B is functioned to improve learning and memory skills and this also seem the similar result to Hobbie-J. But other negative effect also often merge after injected by this substances like dementia and Alzeimer’s disease to the rat.

This experiment is subjected to the rat because genetically modifying of human embryos is not considered ethical; doctors would have to find a way to amplify NR2B expression using drugs instead. The second reasons are mega memory can causes a major burden, even a nightmare to human.