In the ranks of unloved animals, rats are surely king — so reviled that other pest species are often referred to as variations on the archetype: pigeons are “rats with wings,” gray squirrels are “tree rats.” There was also a recent flurry of stories about Britain facing an “invasion” of “300 million monstrous super-rats capable of gnawing on steel and chewing through concrete.
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