What is rat?
Rat is always come to my house, in a village, in the city, even in modern house, rat will come to you. A common kind of rat is a brown or black rat that often seen in our environment. Black rat have a species name Rattus rattus and a brown rat have a species name Rattus norvegicus that is originated in Asia. Rat exactly the name of small mammal that usually are not include in rat species like in America as Nort American pack rat and in Australia called as kangaroo rat and many others. Other kind of rat also include Bandicoot rat that are not exactly include as Rattus genus, this kind of rat is a murine rodent that related to true rat are a minority in this diverse genus.
In a Western country rat sometime become a domestic rat as pets, these rat is a species Rattus Norvegicus which originated in greensland of China and spread to Europe. The common rat that live in our neighborhood are opportunistic survivor, and often live with or near humans. A black plague is believed cause by microorganism of Yersinia pestis that is carried by tropical Rat Flea. (Xenopsylla cheopis), this rat live in European cities that become a plague themselves.
While modern wild rats can carry Leptospirosis and some other "zoonotic" conditions (those which can be transferred across species, to humans, for example), these conditions are in fact rarely found (not true in neotropical countries). Wild rats living in good environments are typically healthy and robust animals. Wild rats living in cities may suffer from poor diets and internal parasites and mites, but do not generally spread disease to humans.
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