Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants | 
Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, was given a gold medal for his work detecting undetonated landmines in Cambodia. In 7 years, he has discovered 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance, helping clear more than 141,000 square meters (nearly 35 acres) of land.
This story reminded me of the tagged, which was a good read about #rats 🐁🐀
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/asia/hero-rat-landmines-award-intl-hnk-scli/index...
#PetsOfLitsy this is #Fry the male #FancyRat
Of all the #Rats I've owned #Fry is without a doubt the pickiest eater. He most certainly does not resemble #Templeton and his #smorgasbord 😂
Incidentally, the tagged book #Rats by #RobertSullivan is an awesome read. It is not a pet care manual, but a naturalist's look at the rats of #NewYorkCity and their place in the urban #ecological web which DOES include we #HomoSapiens
Some of my favorite reading is research for my next novel. Loved this memoir of what one terrific writer learned about rats over a year in Manhattan.
bailedI enjoyed the start of this one but I think it's just going to be lots of rat stories, which shouldn't surprise me given the title.
The nature in which rats exist calls to mind those lives that are not recalled and honored, whose careers are not reexamined in histories -- the lives that seem to be unnatural and even ratty or at least low-down but are not, actually... When we look at rats, we are thus compelled to look at the history of the lives in their midst, to search for the Unrepresented Men.
