Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

Halloween is coming up on Saturday, so I can't wait to do a spooky Halloween episode.

Two years ago, we got curious about candy for Halloween and learned some interesting things

about some of the most popular trick-or-treat candies.

Last year, we learned about bats for Halloween

and we learned if bats really do suck blood.

This year, our Halloween episode topic

comes from a listener in a country

we haven't read any mail from until

today. Mail bag. Mail bag. Hi guys, it's Lewis from Vienna, Austria. I really, really love your

podcast. I want to ask if you could do an episode about rats.

I love rats and I even have two pet rats at home, tiny and fluffy. Thank you very much and keep up the good work.

Lewis.

That's an awesome email. This week we are getting curious about rats for Lewis. I didn't even know that people had rats as pets. I love the name as tiny and fluffy. Isn't that amazing? We are so thankful to have listeners in Austria. Your email was the first one we received from Austria. So a big thank you for listening

to the podcast. It also just occurred to me that we are learning about rats today, and we did

bats a year ago, those words rhyme. Maybe we could get curious about cats next year for Halloween.

That rhymes too. It sure does, and it's a great idea. People think black cats are spooky. In fact,

there is a superstition that if a black cat walks in front of a person, that person will have bad luck.

Well, that's a topic for another week. Let's learn more about rats. What's the question of the week?

The question of the week is, what is a group of rats called?

Interesting. Well, a male rat is called a buck, and a female rat is called a doe.

That's exactly the same as deer. You're right, but I wonder what a group of rats is

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