Rat Quiz

As well aware, the year of 2020 is the year of the rat, the first animal in the Chinese Zodiac. Let us check interesting facts about the murine friend! Fill in the given blanks below.

(source from https://www.terminix.com/blog/education/facts-about-rats/   &  http://www.havahart.com/rat-facts#behavior & https://pets.amerikanki.com/11-interesting-facts-about-mice-and-rats/)

   1.   Rats are very _____________, giving birth to about 6 to 10 pups, 3-6 times per year.

   2.   _______________in nature, rats generally emerge at dusk to do most of their activity and feeding throughout the night.

   3.   A rat’s _________________ never stop growing.

   4.   Among the U.S. cities, ____________ tops the list of the most rat-infested and ________________ was second, followed by Washington, D.C.

   5.   Rats enjoy socializing with others and can even _______________ when they are playful.

   6.   Rats have ______________and different personalities like humans. Some rats tend to be hard-working, others tend to dilly-dally and have fun. Yet others seem to spend all their time entertaining others with funny antics.

   7.   A male mouse is called a _____________ and a female mouse a doe. A group of mice is called a ______________.

   8.   Mice in the wild have short ________________. They usually only live for about five months, mostly because of predators such as cats, snakes and foxes. In a lab setting, mice can live for up to two years.

   9.   MIT neuroscientist Matthew Wilson revealed in 2001 that rats and mice _____________, too – just the same as humans do. They have REM sleep times and neurons in their brains that fire in ways that are familiar to scientists studying human _______________  activity.

  10.               Contrary to popular belief about rats, they are one of the __________________ animals around. They have very rough tongues that they constantly use it on their coats to groom themselves. As long as you keep the cage of a pet clean, you should have no reason to worry about dirtiness.

Answer Keys

   

   

   1.  Prolific

   2.  Nocturnal

   3.  Teeth

   4.  Chicago, NYC

   5.  Laugh

   6.  Individuality

   7.  buck, mischief

   8.  lifespans

   9.  dream

   10.  cleanest