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Because rats are not related to primates. Rats are a type of rodent instead, along with capybara, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils and hamsters (etc). A primate is a classification for entirely different animals, both behaviourally, physiologically and genetically. It is to do with how species are separated taxonomically.

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