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Black rat populations can increase exponentially under certain circumstances, perhaps having to do with the timing of the fruiting of the bamboo plant, and cause devastation to the plantings of subsistence farmers; this phenomenon is known as mautam in parts of India. [18] Black rats are thought to have arrived in Australia with the First Fleet ...
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The best-known Rattus species are the black rat (R. rattus) and the brown rat (R. norvegicus). The group is generally known as the Old World rats or true rats and originated in Asia. Rats are bigger than most Old World mice, which are their relatives, but seldom weigh over 500 grams (1.1 lb) in the wild.
The best-known rat species are the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). This group, generally known as the Old World rats or true rats, originated in Asia . Rats are bigger than most Old World mice , which are their relatives, but seldom weigh over 500 grams ( 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 oz) in the wild.
Mindanao hairy-tailed rat; Mindanao mountain rat; Mindanao shrew-rat; Mindoro black rat; Mindoro climbing rat; Mindoro striped rat; Mirza's eastern moss rat; Mirza's western moss rat; Miss Ryley's soft-furred rat; Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat; Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat; Mount Isarog shrew-mouse; Mountain giant Sunda rat; Müller's ...
The Sahyadris forest rat (Rattus satarae) is a species of rat belonging to the family Muridae. It is native to the northern Western Ghats in India where it is split between three regions, Satara in Maharashtra, the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu and Kodagu district in Karnataka.
The tanezumi rat (Rattus tanezumi), also known as the Asian rat or Asian house rat, yellow-breasted or buff-breasted rat (Rattus flavipectus), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is closely related to the black rat ( Rattus rattus ).
The Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus), sometimes known as the white-footed Indo-Chinese rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It has a wide range, being found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, with introduced populations in Indonesia (widely), Palau, and the Philippines.