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worldwidewandering says:

Rat is the term generally and indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. (Smaller thin-tailed rodents are just as often indiscriminately referred to as mice.)[1] In scientific usage, a rat is any one of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodents belonging to the genus Rattus...more
Originally posted at 12:22PM, 6 January 2007 PDT (permalink)
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