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The rat king appears in novels such as The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot, Ratking by Michael Dibdin, Peeps by Scott Westerfeld, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding, Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle, Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross, The War for the Lot by Sterling E. Lanier, and The Rats by James Herbert.
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* First recorded report of a ' rat king '.
In the Belgo-French comic Le Bal du rat mort, police inspector Jean Lamorgue is a hybrid vampire and he is a king of rats.
The original German term, Rattenkönig, was calqued into English as rat king, and into French as roi des rats.
Konrad Gesner in Historia animalium ( 1551 – 1558 ) stated " Some would have it that the rat waxes mighty in its old age and is fed by its young: this is called the rat king.
Medieval scholars have suggested that people may have been under the impression that the rat king was actually one animal with many bodies, with the “ king ” referring to the animal's size.
Legends have suggested that a “ king rat ” sat on the tails of the rat king, overseeing the movement of the animals as they attempted to navigate with their matted tails.
The rat king was viewed historically as a bad omen, most likely due to rats being carriers for diseases such as the plague.
Diseases tend to arise more readily when animals are confined close together, so the rat king would be a breeding ground of disease if it actually existed.
The museum Mauritianum in Altenburg ( Thuringia ) shows the largest well-known mummified " rat king ", which was found in 1828 in a miller's fireplace at Buchheim.
A rat king found in 1930 in New Zealand, displayed in the Otago Museum in Dunedin, was composed of immature Rattus rattus whose tails were entangled by horse hair.
The only find involving sawah rats ( Rattus rattus brevicaudatus ) occurred on March 23, 1918, in Bogor on Java, where a rat king of ten young field rats was found.
The rat king discovered in 1963 by the farmer P. van Nijnatten at Rucphen, Netherlands as published by cryptozoologist M. Schneider consists of seven rats.
A rat king portentously appears in a sub-section of the same name in E. Annie Proulx's fictional work Accordion Crimes.
A rat king is prominent in James Tiptree, Jr .' s novelette The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats, originally published in New Dimensions 6, 1976.
In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, Keith skeptically notes that the filth associated with supposedly tying the young rats together at a young age is not found in a rat's nest, and suspects that a rat king is created as a sort of project by a rat catcher himself.
E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King features a " Mouse King " ( Mausekönig ) with multiple heads, seemingly inspired by the multiple-bodied rat king, which are typically not retained in productions of the Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker, based on the novella.
* Photo and X-ray of rat king in the Museum of Nantes
* Photos and X-ray of rat king of Rucphen in the Naturalis museum
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There is some reason to think that thyroglobulin synthesis may proceed independently of iodination, for in certain transplantable tumours of the rat thyroid containing essentially no iodinated thyroglobulin, a protein that appears to be thyroglobulin has been observed in ultracentrifuge experiments ( Wolff, Robbins and Rall, 1959 ).
Oriental rat flea ( Xenopsylla cheopis ) infected with the Yersinia pestis Bacteria | bacterium which appears as a dark mass in the gut.
Piracetam appears to reduce levels of lipofuscin in the rat brain.
In addition to the above mentioned episode, a rat appears at the end of the episode " Predacons Rising ", paying homage to Rattrap.
She appears to have formed a very close friendship with Jubilee and become Westernized, wearing revealing clothes and enjoying stereotypical ' mall rat ' activities, although it is revealed that she may carry some reservations and resentments for trading in on her morals and beliefs for her Western behavior.
Because DA synthesis and release in the rat retina are under the control of rods and cones, it appears that rods and cones, in conjunction with or possibly with the exclusion of direct circadian or photic input, control transcription of melanopsin.
Guy Musser describes the rats as having small, round ears, a chunky body and a small tail, and that the giant rat of Flores appears to be adapted for life on the ground and refuge in burrows.
* The cellar rat appears to spy for the highest bidder.
While at first it appears the robots were created in order to help control the cities growing rat problem, it is revealed that Stockman created them as a technical resource for the Shredder.
Recently, the term " rat rod " ( or rat car, as modern cars are not actually hot rods like the name suggests ) has been used to describe almost any vehicle that appears unfinished or is built simply to be driven.
While Harry helps Ron look for his pet rat Scabbers, the train suddenly stops and a hooded figure appears.
Darktan is a Changeling rat who appears in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.
However this finding is disputed by the Pesticide Action Network which states that the EPA ’ s cancer rating " appears to be based solely on a single rat inhalation study in which 66 % of the control group and 54-62 % of the rats in the other groups died before the end of
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The New York City based Hip-Hop group, Ratking, were inspired by the mentions of rat kings in Terry Pratchett novels.
* Flake, a fictional rat in The Deptford Mouselets series of novels by Robin Jarvis
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But even in relatively primitive laboratory animals such as the rat, sex activity closely identified with the hypothalamus and the visceral brain is enhanced by the neocortex.
Primates aside, the macropods ( kangaroos, wallabies and their relatives ), kangaroo rat, springhare and certain primates such as the sifaka and sportive lemur all move bipedally.
Rats such as the bandicoot rat ( Bandicota bengalensis ) are murine rodents related to true rats, but are not members of the genus Rattus.
Since the publication of the rat genome sequence, and other advances, such as the creation of a rat SNP chip, and the production of knockout rats, the laboratory rat has become a useful genetic tool, although not as popular as mice.
Entirely new breeds or " lines " of brown rats, such as the Wistar rat, have been bred for use in laboratories.
Exaggeration was rife — such as a false report circulating in 1936 that the cost of killing a single rat in one extermination endeavor was $ 2. 97 ( over $ 48 in current dollars ).
Large-scale rat control programs have been taken to maintain a steady level of the invasive predators in order to conserve the native species in New Zealand such as kokako and mohua.
Pesticides, such as pindone and 1080 ( sodium fluoroacetate ), are commonly distributed via aerial spray by helicopter as a method of mass control on islands infested with invasive rat populations.
Adult rats will emit ultrasonic vocalizations in response to predators or perceived danger ; the frequency and duration of such cries depends on the sex and reproductive status of the rat.
On a higher level, increased maternal care was found to correlate with reelin expression in rat pups ; such correlation was reported in hippocampus and in the cortex.
In the Skinner box experiment, a stimulus such as food or sugar solution can be delivered when the rat engages in a target behavior, such as pressing a lever.
These tasks include basic classical conditioning tasks such as inhibitory avoidance, where a rat learns to associate a mild footshock with a particular compartment of an apparatus, and more complex tasks such as spatial or cued water maze, where a rat learns to swim to a platform to escape the water.
* In England, rats in certain areas have developed such a strong resistance to rat poison that they can consume up to five times as much of it as normal rats without dying.
Ants are the best-known example of such a superorganism, while the naked mole rat is a famous example of the eusocial mammal.
Pickpocketing can be a dangerous trade, since persons aware of the presence of pickpockets in an area may conceal such items as specially designed mousetraps, rat traps or empty decoy wallets on their person.
These provide habitat for rare plants, such as bear oak ( Quercus ilicifolia ) and deerberry ( Vaccinium stamineum ), as well as rare animals, such as the five-lined skink and gray rat snake.
Considering the time at which it was written ( 1650 ), it was a meritorious work, but philology was then in the empirical stage, and many of Ménage's derivations ( such as that of " rat " from the Latin " mus ," or of " haricot " from " faba ") have since become bywords among philologists.
This trend has been shown in many animals, such as the hamster, the pig, the rat, and the garter snake upon introduction of vaginal or seminal secretions into the environment.
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