{"id":69,"date":"2006-11-21T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-11-21T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T23:56:07","slug":"rattus-norvegicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/69","title":{"rendered":"Rattus norvegicus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rats are fascinating. A few species of rat have colonized niches provided by agrarian and industrial human societies; I blogged earlier in the year about the Polynesian rat and Easter Island &#8211; now it&#8217;s the wharf rat (my favorite name for R. norvegicus) and England&#8217;s turn. So&#8230; here&#8217;s a rat-catcher&#8217;s link farm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A really good book on ratting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fo%2FASIN%2F1558215956&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><span class=\"sans\">Tales of a Rat-Hunting Man<\/span><\/a> &#8211; part of Lyons and Burford&#8217;s &#8216;Wilder Places&#8217; series. Any &#8216;Wilder Places&#8217; title that you can find is guaranteed to be a good read &#8211; they were selected by <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbodio.blogspot.com\/\">Stephen Bodio<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A link courtesy of Reid Farmer (on the Querencia blog) to <a href=\"http:\/\/terriermandotcom.blogspot.com\/2004\/07\/jack-black-and-wistar-rat.html\">Patrick Burns<\/a>. Mr. Burns shows us an interesting connection between the rat pits of Victorian London and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wistar_rat\">modern medicine<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/matthewsi1724317243.html#\">Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years&#8217; Experience<\/a> &#8211; an electronic version(s) of an 1898 book by Ike Mathews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the only advantage to the mongoose being that all the Rats it kills it will bring back dead to it&#8217;s habitation, and that stops the dead Rats from smelling under the floors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/matthewsi1724317243.html#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skydeviler.hawkdog.net\/pub\/pix\/matthews.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Update <\/strong>(11\/29) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/terriermandotcom.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/rats-prevent-plague.html\">a great post<\/a> on Patrick Burn&#8217;s site &#8211; R. norvegicus prevents plague!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rats are fascinating. A few species of rat have colonized niches provided by agrarian and industrial human societies; I blogged earlier in the year about the Polynesian rat and Easter Island &#8211; now it&#8217;s the wharf rat (my favorite name &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/69\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}