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Why rats can teach us a lot about relieving stress.That's about the height of a five-storey building! While accidents can happen, don't worry - a rat can survive a fall from 15 metres. Using long, flexible claws, rats can climb walls with ease. Like contortionists, they can squeeze their whole body through a gap the size of their head.

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Rats display remarkable athletic abilities each and every night, all in pursuit of the tasty trophies we humans leave behind.īrown rats are like mini-gold-medal gymnasts: they have a powerful grip thanks to dextrous finger-like digits, perfect for climbing fences and getting into trash bins full of smelly delights. If there was such a thing as the Olympic Games for city survival, the brown rat delegation would have few rivals. Rats are super eaters, capable of munching up to a third of their body weight every day. They can nosh on an incredible array of street food (literally) found in trash bins and dumpsters and dropped on roads and in gutters. That means rats don't need to be picky about food-safe conditions. It's a crappy commute, but thanks to their supercharged evolution, brown rats have developed genes that help them detoxify - fast. The thousands of kilometres of sewer pipes beneath each of our big cities are used as 'rat highways,' allowing them to reach every corner of our urban areas. After 3-4 weeks, those babies set out on their own and mom can breed again, meaning one female rat could have 15,000 descendants in a single year. Duration 2:15 Rat moms give birth to about 8 babies per litter.