12 Facts About Brown rat

Brown rat, known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat and Parisian rat, is a widespread species of common rat.

Selective breeding of the brown rat has produced the fancy rat, as well as the laboratory rat .

Brown rat was originally called the "Hanover rat" by people wishing to link problems in 18th-century England with the House of Hanover.

Against this hypothesis stands the fact that when the brown rat had become common in this country, it was unknown in Norway, although there was a small animal like a rat, but really a lemming, which made its home there.

Brown rat is the species common in England, and best known throughout the world.

Related searches

The brown rat is a rather large murid and can weigh twice as much as a black rat and many times more than a house mouse .

Brown rat is nocturnal and is a good swimmer, both on the surface and underwater, and has been observed climbing slim round metal poles several feet in order to reach garden bird feeders.

Brown rat is a true omnivore and will consume almost anything, but cereals form a substantial part of its diet.

Possibly originating from the plains of northern China and Mongolia, the brown rat spread to other parts of the world sometime in the Middle Ages.

In tropical and desert regions, brown rat occurrence tends to be limited to human-modified habitats.

Today the brown rat is found on seven of the 18 Faroese islands, and is common in and around human habitations as well as in the wild.

The first brown rat did not reach Alberta until 1950, and in 1951, the province launched a rat-control program that included shooting, poisoning, and gassing rats, and bulldozing or burning down some rat-infested buildings.