The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the Norway rat, is the most common rat in Britain, and the one you are most likely to find scurrying around your house or garden. Like mice, rats are ‘commensal’ rodents, which means they ‘share man’s table’ - a good description, as rats thrive in human environments.
As well as causing extensive damage to building infrastructure and contaminating food from urine and faeces, rats carry a frightening number of diseases, including Lyme disease, Weil’s disease, toxoplasmosis, salmonellosis, Q fever and amoebic dysentery.
Numbers of brown rats are on the increase, particularly in the inner cities, as littering, fly-tipping and fortnightly bin collections provide rats with
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