- Rodents are the most populated mammal on earth
- There are an estimated 4 million rats born everyday, ten for every human born.
- A Norway rat reaches sexual maturity in two months
- Given a 100% survival rate, pyramid breeding from a pair of rats can result in excess of 3,500 off-spring in one year
- Rats are known to carry 70 diseases including cholera, typhus, bubonic plague and leptospirosis, a bacterial illness spread by urine contaminating water and food
- A hundred rats will eat about 350kg of grain per year
- The United States has an estimated 1.25 billion rats, causing at least US$19 billion dollars worth of damage each year
- Rats teeth grow 4 ½ “ – 5 ½ “ per year and only gnawing keeps them short and sharp.
- A rats teeth are so strong they can bite through aluminium, lead and other metals
- Rats can fall 20 feet without being injured
- They can jump three feet straight up and four feet out from a standing position
- Rats can climb inside pipes with diameters between 1 ½” - 4 “
- Rats require an opening of only ½” to gain entry into buildings
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