What’s more to say of rats, they crawl, they eat, they breed, and they sleep and get into almost everything, but what’s more they are masters of the food court. This is so much so that they are no longer seen as food, but rather the finders of food. The most common of the subtypes they are social beyond grouping in mass and guarding in full. There is many different types of rats, for different purposes.
One of the largest muroids, it is a rodent with a body up to 25 cm (10 in) long, and a similar tail length; the male weighs on average 350 g (12 oz) and the female 250 g (9 oz).
The length can be up to 25 cm (10 in), with the tail a further 25 cm (10 in), the same length as the body. Adult body weight averages 550 g (19 oz) in males and about 350 g (12 oz) in females, but a very large individual can reach 900 g (32 oz). Rats weighing over 1 kg (2.2 lb) are exceptional.
Rats have acute hearing, are sensitive to ultrasound, and possess a very highly developed olfactory sense. The vision of a pigmented rat is poor, around 20/600, while a non-pigmented (albino) with no melanin in its eyes has both around 20/1200 vision and a terrible scattering of light within its vision. rats are dichromates who perceive colours rather like a human with red-green colorblindness, and their colour saturation may be quite faint. Their blue perception, however, also has UV perceptors, allowing them to see ultraviolet lights that some species cannot.
The rat is usually active at night and is a good swimmer, both on the surface and underwater, they are poor climbers. rats dig well, and often excavate extensive burrow systems.
The rat is a true omnivore and will consume almost anything, but cereals form a substantial part of its diet.
Rats are known to burrow extensively, both in the wild and in captivity, if given access to a suitable substrate.
Burrows provide rats with shelter and food storage as well as safe, thermoregulated nest sites.Rats use their burrows to escape from perceived threats in the surrounding environment—for example, rats will retreat to their burrows following a sudden, loud noise or while fleeing an intruder.
This is why the home of the rats Rose thorp is actually located underground. Tho the tunnels have been made larger to be open to more larger creatures.
Rats often live in huge colony's with hundreds in population, A few larger are controlled by groups rather then a single member, rat colony's are often seen as a dictatorship how ever there are many that aren't. Rats are rarely seen alone.
Stages
Pinky - Newborn - Joint gender
Teen - Stage 2 - male and female forms
Adult - Stage 3 - Male and female forms
