Humans and rats have lived in an uneasy relationship for millennia.

Rats have spread diseases like the Bubonic plague, destroyed grain, harvests, and stolen our pizzas.

In return, rats have given humans pretty much nothing. As such, humans have waged a relentless

war against rats which for the most part has gone nowhere. However there are some

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The history of rats and humans goes back to the beginning of agriculture.

The rats which most humans are familiar with

are the black rat or the ship rat which came from India and the brown rat or the Norwegian

rat which oddly enough didn't come from Norway but somewhere else in continental Europe.

Prior to the rise of agriculture there was nothing special about the rat human relationship.

Rats were like other rodents that lived in the wild.

They were opportunistic eaters and were preyed on by larger

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