A high rat, she says, can do the equivalent of getting stuck on the couch. "It's similar to humans taking edibles," she tells Axios. They slow down, have reduced pain and binge eat high-sugar ...

The brown rat is an omnivorous scavenger, and it doesn’t seem to care at all whether its food is fresh or spoiled. It will eat soap, oil paints, shoe leather, the bone of a bone-handled knife ...

Robert Corrigan calls rats "masters of adaptation" The closure of restaurants and the retreat by humans indoors is having an effect on the eating habits and behaviour of rats, say experts.

Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code of rat eat rat. Good citizens were startled by Diamond’s criminal record.