Rats


They are all the same to you will get
Monsters of the classic horror scary not only and not so much bloodlust. They are virtually unstoppable - that's what makes us press in the chair. you can be locked at any number of locks and take any precautions, but if Jason from "Friday the 13th" Freddy from "Nightmare on Elm Street" or any "Women in black "announced to you hunt, the chances of you ... you know.

With rats - the same story. Though cake smashed in, figuring out how to save them from their home, but decided to come back if the rat to visit you - she does, to be sure. Rat does not cost anything to scramble for any ventilation. Let's say you have provided such an opportunity and plugged all the holes. However, as it turned out in one study (.pdf), a small rat does not cost anything to lift an object weighing more than 0, 5 kg if it suspects that the other side of parquet appetizing.

They are able to squeeze into the tiny holes - diameter of not more than a quarter of the circumference of the rat. It's almost finished the T-1000 from Terminator second part: steel cover its network and it will seep between the bars, do not have time to blink an eye.

They have another favorite way to penetrate into our homes - through the pipes. And four centimeters in diameter it is enough. And yet - they are champions in swimming. Putting these two skills and get an animal that one day could come up out of your toilet. And such cases are not uncommon.

Let's say you had managed to block them and this opportunity - so what? If they took for you, they progryzut itself a separate entrance through the wall, they shall not lose anything. Nature (probably to keep us on our toes) awarded rats incredibly strong, even for rodents, the muscles of the jaw. And while some bunny peacefully gnaws bark of a tree, these small creatures Give bricks, cement and even lead. Their incisors grow all life, and they have no other choice but to constantly grind them.

They multiply with incredible speed

Another kind of kinomonstrov characterized in that at an incredible rate spreads population of their own kind. Usually it is extraterrestrial beings who intend in record time a flood the whole earth. They may look like shapeless amoeba meat and teeth, multiply by division, or how disgusting winged monster, lay their eggs in the human body. Invariably one thing - they quickly multiply.

This group includes the "Aliens" by James Cameron, "Something" by John Carpenter and ... that's right, our rats.

One pair of rodents for 2-3 years of my life have time to give birth to cubs 6000. It does not take three months, as a new offspring, too, begins to multiply, and so on. And they have not taken to the younger generation goes to look for a better life in foreign lands. If enough food, they will not move from their seats until the flood the whole city.

In fact, many regions that are saved on pest control during the recession, have experienced a true rat baby boom. Now Britain's rat population is about 80 million, which is 200 percent more than in 2007. And even with all the modern methods of pest control, in New York for one person has at least one rat.

They are champions in the game of hide and seek

Kinomonstry - master of disguise: they either attack from behind a corner, or manage to go unnoticed in front of everybody. Cthulhu is hidden at the bottom of the sea, Freddy Krueger exists as an abstract concept in the nightmares of his victims and predators can become invisible in the literal sense.

And everything is as it is written with rats. This does not mean that finding a rat in your house settled - a difficult task. This means that there may be powerless even a team of trained specialists, armed with the latest technological developments.

We know what they say. A group of scientists, hoping to learn something new about the life and movements of rodents, drove one single rat named Rasputin on a lonely island near New Zealand, where before the rats were not found. Pre-they took a DNA sample of the ward. Then put on a special electronic collar rat, and studied for four weeks, where the rat sleeps, where eating, what routes moves and stuff like that.

Then scientists decided for some reason to catch this rat. Despite the pitfalls (there were more than three dozen), despite all the lures and tricks, despite the efforts of two specially trained dogs, they do not work. Worse, in some point ceased to do radio with attachments to an animal unit, and hope to find a rodent dissipated like smoke.

What is surprising, Rasputin still found: 18 weeks and on another island - about half a kilometer from where he was released. Nobody knew that rats can swim so far.

They are indestructible

This quality unites many kinomonstrov, especially serials: Kill them, kill - and to enter the next part of it again like new.

So where does a rat, you ask. Conventional rodents. No hint of immortality. They can be anything, but considered them invincible - it's too much.

However ... What we know is the surest way to kill a rat? Poison? So. When rats are food security is not assured, they first try it - just a little bit. And if you feel like something is wrong, more to this food not touch. They are well aware of our insidious plans and know how to destroy them.

In addition, we are increasingly faced with a completely new kind of creature that scientists have dubbed "superkrysami mutants", which has almost no poison takes.

They yearn for your blood

We got to the last one of the most heinous kinds of monsters that have only one purpose - to drink your blood. Any zombies, vampires, werewolves and even "Jaws" - the most motivated of the monsters presented in this article. Because you believe delicious.

Then the rats no exception. Everyone knows that rats do not make money off of carrion. And yet it is believed that they are completely illegible in food. But this is not true. There's something to what they feed a special weakness - human blood. And if the rat once tried this "goodies" that will not rest until he gets to him again.

Scientists studying rats 22, argue that the best chance to get a bite of rat to the period between midnight and eight o'clock in the morning, while you are sleeping peacefully in his bed, not knowing that the contagious thing is about clinging to your face. And this is not an exaggeration: rats often bite the face or hands.

And that you do not have spiders that bite once and all. If a rat bite you one day, there are indeed a high probability that she will want to continue the feast.

And it does not necessarily bites for self-protection or fear, and not even because hungry.

She just wants your blood. Literally. In 1945, Professor K. Richter conducted a study whose purpose was to find out what this attracts rats to humans. He gave rats access to a large number of human blood. 24 hours in rodents drank every drop - and that was four times more than usual for them daily volume of food! That's the conclusion of Richter, word for word: "Rats can really develop a strong craving for fresh human blood."