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General Note: |
Previously published: Toronto : Key Porter Books, 2006. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: An Eating and Reproducing Machine 11 -- The Prehistory of the Rat 35 -- A Most Uneasy Partnership 59 -- Entertainer, Test Subject, and Family Friend 87 -- Vermin, Villain, and God's Best Friend 115 -- Destroyer of Worlds 131 -- Second Only to Us 149 -- Quagmire 171 -- Future Rat 195. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Examines the characteristics, physiology, habits, behavior, evolution, history, myth, and psyche of one of the world's most successful animals, in a study that explores the reasons why the ever-adaptable rat has risen to the top of the animal kingdom. |
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012961.html |