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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 2009
Page
12
The Mini Page explores rats as creatures that bring trouble and insight. It explains rats are rodents, a large mammal group with about 2300 species, notable for long growing incisors and strong jaw muscles that let them gnaw through hard materials like lead, aluminum, wood, and trees.
The piece explains Norway rats as the most common rat in the U S and describes their size tail features and habitat differences from mice. It notes incisor growth requires gnawing and contrasts rat and mouse species with emphasis on body length and species distinction.
Norway and roof rats share social, adaptable traits with humans and have spread globally via ships. Roof rats climb, eat crops, and may have originated in India, while Norway rats thrive in cities, are nocturnal, excellent swimmers, and derive from China.
Rats harm people by attacks and disease, with over 40 illnesses including bubonic plague and typhus. They cause global suffering, destroy 20 percent of crops, contaminate food, trigger fires through wiring, and damage buildings costing about 200 million dollars annually in the United States.
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