Sentence examples for ship rat from inspiring English sources

There are two quick ways to tell a Norway rat from a ship rat.

Some of them, like the Norway rat and the ship rat, were stowaways.

The black rat also known as the ship rat, the roof rat, and the house rat is actually gray.

The black rat — also known as the ship rat, the roof rat, and the house rat — is actually gray.

By Elizabeth Kolbert February 27 , 2015A great gerbil in Central Asia's Karakum Desert.* The black rat — also known as the ship rat, the roof rat, and the house rat — is actually gray.

With a ship rat, if you take its tail and fold it over its body — here it obviously helps if the rat is dead — it will extend beyond its nose.

Ship rats have large ears that stick out from their heads; Norway rats' ears are shorter and less fleshy.

They are a tame variation on Norway rats, which are thought to have evolved from ship rats over the last 1,000 or so years.

Under the fifth were two ship rats, one freshly killed and the other just a clump of matted fur with a very long tail.

We investigated the ecology of introduced ship rats (Rattus rattus) on a nearshore island, and gene flow with adjacent mainland populations, in order to understand the metapopulation dynamics and relative levels of pest control required within the landscape.

Footprint tracking rates for exotic ship rats (Rattus rattus), which are likely to be the key nest predator, varied greatly among fragments, but were not a useful predictor of nest survival.