Black Rat - The British Mammal Guide

Black Rat - A clip from the British Mammal Guide DVD
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[@fin8953]

HES GOT A MELON

[@adamel-yousseph960]

It's fascinating how the rat was called mus in Latin and Old English (yes, the word mouse came from Old English), ræt in late Old English, and rattus in Medieval Latin. Do you think so?

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

You tell me, looking for a dark rat

[@TheChoujinVirus]

who was brought here because of that Pixar short "Your friend, the Rat"

[@willowvc1910]

Got one in our garden

[@fin8953]

Very nice

[@ninagalvani1007]

I want one!

[@puddspudds5102]

They're in plymouth because me and my daughter just saw one in my garden . So pretty I had to look it up as looked like a fancy rat . Been trying to catch it in a humane cage but its too smart 🤓

[@chelenac.1211]

You’re sweet❤️ And That’s RIGHT rattys are pretty! We are saying that to all the mean dummy heads out there that would say any different!

[@mabel8179]

@@chelenac.1211 I love rats too. I miss my two ratty girls who passed away 3 years ago (fancy rats of course). There's an American man here on KZbin who breeds black rats as pets. Unlike here in the UK America has plenty of rattus rattus. They call them roof rats there. And black rats did not spread the plague in the middle ages- it's a lie! Their numbers were very small at this time and nobody mentioned lots of dead rats which surely they would've noticed! The plague was spread by the human flea and body lice- most people were crawling with fleas and lice then.

[@rebecca8525]

@@mabel8179I’m American, and I can confirm that there’s lots of black rats here in the States. They must have come over here in 1620 with the pilgrims.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@@chelenac.1211 Those "dummy heads" as you call them will teach you just how many diseases these "pretty" creatures inflicted on humans throughout history. There was nothing pretty about the Bubonic Plague.

[@dukedex5043]

London Liverpool and Bristol you say, but i've seen one in Manchester. At least I think it was this. It was large, black, with a pink/pale tale.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

I'm in Cumbria and they're certanly around here.

[@rekhadas3537]

👌👌👌👌❤❤❤

[@fin8953]

I like

[@dmitrimikrioukov5935]

I wish I kept one. So cute!

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Well, cute until they bring the Bubonic Plague into your family anyway.

[@dmitrimikrioukov5935]

@@TonyEnglandUK any wild animal can bring dangerous infections. I am not talking about domesticated ones, of course.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@@dmitrimikrioukov5935 Don't be silly. That's like saying a wild deer can be as dangerous as a wild tiger. Infected fleas seek out rats as their main prey

[@LukaRiaro]

*Is this the Rattus Norvegicus, by any chance? 😀 I was brought here after listening to the Stranglers album "Rattus Norvegicus" which I was told means "black rat" in Latin. 😅*

[@xianseah4847]

Rattus rattus

[@jacquelineentwistle5091]

❤️🐀🐁🔥👍

[@philiplettley]

The last true black rat colony in the British Isles is on sark in the Channel Islands. Proof has shown that other supposed clusters have mostly brown rat genes. Currently a company from the UK is proposing to eradicate the rat population from Sark, to compensate for them building a wind farm at hornsea in Yorkshire. There is strong local opposition to this plan

[@daviddempsie4743]

Shaint Isles outer herbrides in Scotland has a colony of black rat

[@WatermelonLemonade420]

We could round em up and send then to your house you seem like a nice chap who lives woth rodants

[@thikimhongtran2111]

Các bé chuột de thương đáng yêu quá đi

[@_TStyle]

sanchit!

[@KyuuDesperation]

Black Plague!

[@xianseah4847]

Black Plague are mainly spread by fleas on pets.

[@KyuuDesperation]

@@xianseah4847 hmmmm.... I don't think Medieval Humans had Rat Pets. But I think I remember it was more like Bacteria or Virus that did on fleas then the rats and ETC....

[@fin8953]

Happy accident

[@maurostrummer9986]

O baixista do uma banda de rock gay.

[@fin8953]

That’s so sad