They can grow to the size of a cat with razor sharp teeth
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There are lots of giant rats in fiction like Sherlock Holmes' "Giant Rat of Sumatra" and in the Princess Bride as RUS (Rodents of Unusual Size). In real life the Gambian Pouched Rat (almost a meter long) probably gets the winning place.
World War I stories are often filled with stories of very large rats prowling the trenches after a battle feasting on remains.
Hooded Rats can start from 450 grams to 1.5 kilos. The largest Hooded rat, "Sarlah" was 2.10 kilos from China in 2006. They are quiet big and their growth spurts usually begin around the age of 3-6 months old.
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Long-Evans Hooded rats are an outbred strain from several female Wistar rats and a wild gray Norway rat by Drs. Long and Evans in 1915. Wistar rats are themselves an outbred strain of albino rats of the species "Rattus norvegicus" or Norway rat developed at th Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in 1906 for biological and medical use.
My pet rats, which were Hooded rats, where very intelligent. They were easily trained to give 'kisses' (to place their nose on my nose) with a simple command. They also, however, where smart enough to work the latch on their cage, so they could easily escape.
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You answered your own question - by placing it in the Cobras section !
They are canivores anything from rats to large moose. They are canivores anything from rats to large moose.
V. W. Emslie has written: 'The immune response of hooded rats to infection with Trypanosoma brucei and Litomosoides carinii'
In Alberta, rats are illegal. Alberta has a program to keep rats out, which has been by and large successful.
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Edward Laurence McKnight has written: 'The effects of morphine on learned discrimination of differentially pulsed mild shock in hooded rats' -- subject(s): Conditioned response, Learning, Psychology of, Psychology of Learning, Rats
No, they are separate species.