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  2. The Graveyard Rats - Wikipedia

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    As he climbs back up the tunnel Masson eventually comes face-to-face with a burrowing zombie-like creature, from which he flees down a side tunnel. To escape the corpse, he collapses the tunnel behind him. He then finds himself trapped in a coffin which a rat had previously emptied. Masson asphyxiates from lack of air as the rats descend upon him.

  3. How rats got from Mongolia to New York City subway tunnels

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    By the 1750s, brown rats were in New York City, destined to be subway kings. Ironically, for how widespread it is, the brown rat is a homebody. "In its natural habitat, it has a very small home ...

  4. Graveyard Shift (short story) - Wikipedia

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    This rat empire, cut off from the rest of nature, has allowed the animals to evolve into a strange and varied combination of creatures, complete with its own bizarre, self-sustaining ecosystem. There are large, armored rats; albino , weasel -like rats that can climb up walls or burrow through the ground; and bat -like rats that have evolved to ...

  5. Tunnel rat - Wikipedia

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    Rats, spiders, scorpions, and ants also posed threats to tunnel rats. Bats also roosted in the tunnels, although they were generally more of a nuisance than a threat. Tunnel construction occasionally included anti-intruder features such as U-bends that could be flooded quickly to trap and drown the tunnel rat. Sometimes poison gases were used.

  6. Gopher - Wikipedia

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    Males and females may share some burrows and nesting chambers if their territories border each other, but in general, each pocket gopher inhabits its own individual tunnel system. Although they attempt to flee when threatened, they may attack other animals, including cats and humans, and can inflict serious bites with their long, sharp teeth.

  7. Damaraland mole-rat - Wikipedia

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    Damaraland mole-rats live in networks of tunnels, [8] which they dig with their front teeth. The tunnels are 65 to 75 mm (2.6 to 3.0 in) in diameter, and may stretch for up to 1 km (0.62 mi). They have no connection to the surface, although their presence can be inferred from dome-shaped molehills of excavated earth pushed up to the surface. [9]

  8. What are ‘rat-hole’ miners? Controversial specialists brought ...

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    The technique dubbed “rat-hole mining” has been used to dig through the final stretch of fallen rocks and debris and reach the workers, who have remained trapped in the collapsed tunnel in ...

  9. Rat torture - Wikipedia

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    The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of the Tower of London alleged by Catholic writers from the Elizabethan era. "A cell below high-water mark and totally dark" would draw in rats from the River Thames as the tide flowed in. Prisoners would have their "alarm excited" and in some instances, have "flesh ... torn from the arms and legs".