| 单词 | Norway rat |
| 例句 | Norway rats, a common household pest across the U.S., will often burrow beneath your home’s foundation and can consequently be found in basements, crawl spaces and other low-reaching areas of the house. Found a rat in your house? Here’s how to get rid of it 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Brown rats, also known as Norway rats, have coexisted with humans for thousands of years and are prolific transmitters of human diseases. The coronavirus has infected New York City's rats. Why that's bad news for people 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z There is the misnamed Norway rat — also called the brown, sewer or wharf rat — actually a native from northern China or Mongolia. Rats in Seattle: They’re creepy, clever and everywhere, but there is help 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Even though brown rats are also called Norway rats, the geographical name’s not accurate. D.C.’s great rat migration — and how they survived during the pandemic The average Norway rat can potentially jump vertically 3 feet, and horizontally 4 feet. That Instagram-famous street rat is probably a loser in the rat world 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z This species “should be a dreamy candidate for de-extinction,” McCauley says, given its close relationship with the Norway rat, a well-studied lab animal with a complete genome sequence that scientists already know how to modify. Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z To catch another sizeable rodent, the Norway rat, however, a New Yorker can go to the hardware store around the corner and purchase a glue board. In a world that still traps animals, can science ever limit suffering? 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z And while some species, like the malaria-carrying Anopheles gambiae mosquito, exist only in sub-Saharan Africa, others, like the Norway rat, are virtually everywhere. The Gene Drive Dilemma: We Can Alter Entire Species, but Should We? 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z British naturalist John Berkenhout dubbed them Norway rats because of incorrect rumors that they had come over on lumber ships from Norway, Corrigan said. D.C.’s great rat migration — and how they survived during the pandemic The rats sold at pet stores, used in laboratory experiments and adopted from private breeders are all Norway rats. They’re intelligent and friendly. Why some people think rats are the perfect pet, for fun and comfort. 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Old DNA only survives in small fragments, so the team used the genome of the Norway rat as a reference to piece together as much as possible of the vanished rat’s genome. Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z A Norway rat that likely was carried by ship was spotted last year on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. Wildlife officials cheer rat death on remote Alaska island 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Most Norway rats live only about eight months, and they stay warm by burrowing underground or chewing their way into basements. Draining the swamp, clearing the burrows: DC’s war on rats 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The District has long struggled with its own big, brown Norway rats. Washington DC combats rat problem with technology 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, crossed the Atlantic aboard European ships in the 1700s. As cities report more rats than ever, scientists find eastside and westside rodents 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Palms afforded LA little protection from heat, drought and flooding, plus they served as a habitat for the Norway rat, but their die-off signalled a wider crisis, he said. Los Angeles' legendary palm trees are dying – and few will be replaced 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The Norway rat is an animal full of contradictions, starting with its common name. A Rat With a Bum Rap. And It Isn’t Even Norwegian. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The brown rat is sometimes called the Norway rat, but the new research confirms that the name is a misnomer. How the Brown Rat Conquered New York City (and Every Other One, Too) 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The culprit — known as the Norway rat or brown rat — can grow to 15 inches long, not including tail, and weigh over a pound. Rats on the prowl in Wenatchee 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Johnson says the rat being seen around Kodiak is the Norway rat, which state biologist Steve Ebbert called the most successful of the invasive rats. More rats being seen on Kodiak Island this year 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The average body of a Norway rat in the West, they say, is six to eight inches long. As giant rats menace Pakistan, conspiracy theories swirl 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Norway rats are intelligent, resourceful and surprisingly clean. A Rat With a Bum Rap. And It Isn’t Even Norwegian. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In the first study of its kind in 90 years, Columbia University etymologists trapped 133 common New York rats, also known as the Norway rat, to examine bugs that piggyback throughout the city. New York politicians arm city with $2.9m and 'finest expert' to evict rats 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z However, the Ebola virus is apparently quite old; previous research discovered remnants of identical Ebola DNA in several species of rodents, including the mouse and the Norway rat. Was Ebola the culprit in the ancient Plague of Athens? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The most common species of rat in the District — yes, there are several—is the Norway rat. Rats in your home should gross you out. Dealing with it is your problem. 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z All members of the genus Rattus are banned from the province, but Alberta is especially alert for one species: the brown rat, also known as the wharf rat, sewer rat, and Norway rat. On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z It is theorized that the ancestors of today’s Norway rats joined the colonists on boats headed for North America somewhere around 1750. A Rat With a Bum Rap. And It Isn’t Even Norwegian. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Ship rats have large ears that stick out from their heads; Norway rats’ ears are shorter and less fleshy. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z “With continued urbanization, highly successful synanthropic species like the Norway rat are likely to play increasingly important roles in zoonotic disease ecology as the size and complexity of the human-rodent interface increases,” the study reads. Here Are The Diseases In NYC Rats 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Mice and black rats were probably the first to arrive, introduced by pirates or whalers in the seventeenth century; since the 1980s, Norway rats have found their way there too. Invasive species: The 18-km2 rat trap 2013-05-15T17:20:48.780Z There are two kinds of rats known in this country, the black, which was formerly very common, but is now rarely seen, being superseded by the large brown kind, commonly called the Norway rat. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z Norway rats were almost certainly not involved, but even black rats may have had a significantly smaller role than previously suspected. A Rat With a Bum Rap. And It Isn’t Even Norwegian. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Some of them, like the Norway rat and the ship rat, were stowaways. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z As the Norway rat kills all other rats that it meets, so the savage must disappear, and the Northern races of Europe will exterminate them. Canadian Eclipse Party 1869 2011-02-25T03:01:12.137Z But when a species manages to thrive despite the best efforts of humans: white-tailed deer, Norway rats, the grey squirrel, or the common pigeon, you cry that it’s a pest! | The Pigeon Menace 2010-07-30T17:38:00Z In these buildings northern white-footed mice, Norway rats, and house mice were taken. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 By autumn, Norway rats, either brought in with the corn or attracted by it, had taken possession of the wall, evidently displacing the woodrats, which were no longer present. Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana There are two quick ways to tell a Norway rat from a ship rat. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It was full of the lumber of thirty years and tenanted by a colony of Norway rats, who were on the most familiar terms with Snorro. Jan Vedder's Wife Thus died together, as they had lived, the thirty-two Norway rats,—an enviable death, not often vouchsafed by fate! My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 Norway rat July 11: adult, 7, 37 mm. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 They were always mischievous, but the Norway rat that came with the white man was worse. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The Norway rat was brought to our country on sailing vessels and causes more loss than most of us realize. Conservation Reader It has been observed that wherever they make their appearance, in a few years the rats of all other species disappear; and it is therefore conjectured that the Norway rats destroy the other kinds! The Boy Tar They had in a little cage a pair of white Norway rats with red eyes, as pretty as pretty could be. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 My husband is as timid as a Norway rat. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Their size is, in general, about the same as the Black and Norway rats—both of which belong to England, and have been introduced, by means of ships, into every country upon the habitable globe. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys We know the European mouse is driving before it that of New Zealand, like the Norway rat has driven before it the old English species in England. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Even cats are afraid of them; and in many parts of the world the cats will shy away from an encounter with Norway rats, choosing for their prey some victim of a milder disposition. The Boy Tar The black rat is that which first inhabited this island; but it has been nearly driven out by the brown, which is, without any foundation, termed the Norway rat. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals Cats I scorn, who, sleek and fat, Shiver at a Norway rat. Americans and Others It is said that the common Norway rat, in the short space of two years, annihilated in this northern end of the island, the New Zealand species. The Voyage of the Beagle And was not the very act of turning ferocious animals, namely, Norway rats, loose in his hall, to the danger of his face, eyes, and throat, a very indubitable and sufficient assault? The Adventures of Hugh Trevor The Norway rats are not individually large rats. The Boy Tar There is now no known spot free from the Norway rat, and the greater the number, of course the more impudent they become. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals Pigs, Spanish dollars, and Norway rats, are not the only commodities and incommodities which have performed the circumnavigation, and are to be found wherever European ships have touched. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society One fact about the Norway rat is peculiar: it appears to know when it possesses the advantage. The Boy Tar It happened, while his passions were in full force, that a rat-catcher arrived at Mowbray Hall; which at that time was greatly infested by the large Norway rats. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor |
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