The Story of Rats

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud. An English Member of Parliament Are rats still a threat to our health and food? Do they think? Is it true that wild rats sometimes die, unwounded, from social stress? Can studies of rat societies tell us anything useful about our own social lives? Love them or loathe them, everyone has a rat story. Throughout history vast numbers of rats of many species have shared our space, our food and