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MOUSE OF FIELD and RAT OF CITY The rats colloquially divide in two groups the gray rat or of culvert and the black or rustic, well-known rat like mouse. The gray rats live in the populations, with great organization in their society; a dominant male exists who is frequently changing due to the fights and internal fights. They are rodents that a great ability in the water has and are more aggressive than the rates of field, causing serious destructions in grain warehouses.
The black rat or rat of sewer it is in the habit of living in urban zones .These rats are omnívorous, is fed on insects, sweepings, rest of food, vegetables, remainders animals or of its own corpses. They ingest every day 10% of its weight and can eat as diverse foods as: paper, rubber, lead, wood, plastic. Whit this quality is so harmful with electrical cables and the pipes. The rats black live in the field, are good climbers and they are fed on vegetables, the cereal grains and seeds are what they like more, move until the food and soon they transfer it to its nest. At the present time a great displacement of the black rats appears world-wide, It owes to that the field rate is smaller and less aggressive than the gray rats.
The gray rat is more aggressive than the black rat. The last information of different parts from the world indicate that the rats and mice are increasing quickly, are numerous the cities that suffer an invasion, like for example the city of Birmingham the second greatest one of England than it has been seen lately plagued of rats. Lamentably flute and flautist of Hamelin does not exist and the man with their intelligence this looking for methods to eradicate these plagues. In conclusion, the rats are tremendously detrimental for the man by the damages and diseases that they transmit and unfortunately a effort considered is not made very to make aware to the population.
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