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Rats: Friends or Foes?
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So often on the internet, we find information that presents opposite viewpoints on a topic. Look at the links below about rats and after reading and discussing them with a partner, write a statement that best answers the question: Are rats friends to the human race or are they enemies to the human race? |
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| U-Tube Video of Rats at a KFC in New York City | View this U-Tube Video of people at a restaurant being shocked to see so many rats scurrying everywhere. |
| U-Tube Video of Rat Temple in India | View this U-Tube Video of people in India worshipping rats that live in their temple. |
| AOL.COM Video of Rats in the UK | View this AOL.COM video of how the United Kingdom feels about the number of rats in their country.
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Lynn Rosskamp, gets Norbert, her pet rat, ready for the costume contest Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004, during the RatsPacNW Fall Rat Show on Mercer Island, Wash. The rat show had a pirate theme and Norbert was getting dressed up as a par-rat (parrot). The day long show had "best of" judging of the different breed of rats, a rat race, rat maze and costume show. (AP Photo/King County Journal, Patrick Hagerty) |
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Kada, an albino female rat trained by Alison Smith of Lincoln, Neb, struggles to stay on the rope as it competes in the tight rope event at the Xtreme Rat Challange competition at the Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Neb., on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005. The rats participating in the annual Xtreme Rat Challange are trained by students taking a psychology course at the university. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) |
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FILE--Some of the thousands of inhabitants of Rats R Us poke noses and paws out of their cage Friday, Jan. 19, 1996, in Encinitas, Calif. Rats R Us produces up to 9,000 feeder rats per month which are sold to reptile owners to feed to their pets. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, Charlie Neuman) |
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Civic workers count rats after a cleaning operation in Bombay, India, Saturday August 5, 2000 following the outbreak of leptospirosis, a fever spread by germs in rats' urine. The disease spreads during monsoon flooding when contaminated drain water spills onto roads and affects people through bruises or wounds. The city of Bombay is quintupling the bounty it offers for each rodent caught to five rupees (11 cents) in an effort to create a legion of freelance ``Pied Pipers'' and hopefully stem a disease spread by rat urine that has killed eight people and sickened 119 in the past month. (AP Photo ) |
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Student Elizabeth Franas, 19, holds a lab rat used for brain research Feb. 19, 2002, at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich. Franas is a "cutter," a commonly used term for the estimated hundreds of thousands of people who injure themselves regularly--and deeply enough to draw blood--in times of stress, anxiety and depression. After going public with her problem, she hopes to eventually do research on self-injuring. (AP Photo/Al Goldis) |