Are Rats Friends Or Foes? | Earth Unplugged

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Maddie Moate sniffs out the truth about rats and the reasoning behind our up and down relationship with them. Subscribe to Earth Unplugged for more amazing animal videos - bit.ly/Subscrib...
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@0sba 7 лет назад

If she made videos about my least favorite subject (maths) I would still watch them. such a soothing voice!

@debcurrelly2904 7 лет назад

They eat snails, their tunnels allow air and water to enter the soil, they teach each other new skills and they make great pets. I like them. As with all of us, they need to have boundaries to prevent them from being too numerous and to keep them out of our kitchens.

@laurenedge6392 7 лет назад

Deb Currelly I 1000000% agree

@joshturner9766 4 года назад

boundaries like me, i make youtube videos of pest control

@RisqueBisquet 7 лет назад

I've had 3 pet rats. People always ask "Do they bite?". One of them had a really weird habit of nibbling my socks while I was wearing them, but no. No matter how scared or angry they got (which wasn't much) they never once intentionally bit me.

@MarkShaneHansen 7 лет назад

"never once *intentionally*" I feel that is a very important piece of information. How much did they bite you "unintentionally"?

@Jenny-kt2xj 6 лет назад

I've had 8 pet rats, they have a vendetta against socks haha. Have to go barefoot whilst they're out of their cage or my socks get nibbled.

@TheZabbiemaster 7 лет назад

my cat just lauched itself into my monitor at 1:22

@raskelsrat 7 лет назад

I currently have 3 pet rats. I don't have any issues with wild rats as long as they're not hanging out in my apartment. I actually enjoy watching them in parks.

@zwaveltand 7 лет назад

RaskelTRat ii

@CistudeSuisse 7 лет назад

Wasn't it proove recently that the plague wasn't firstly carried by rats, but by Marmotta ? Rats' bad reputation isn't true. They are so intelligent. Fancy rats are incredible pets ! ♡

@ashknoecklein 7 лет назад

I've had pet rats, and they are amazing! I am not going to be getting any more though, simply because it's too sad when they pass away. They have such short lives, it's hard to say goodbye so soon.

@gustavengman 7 лет назад

I was bitten by a rat when I was a kid. I was at an animal exhibition/fair and they told us we could pet the rats. It almost bit through my finger and even today I can see a small scar from it.

@simonemerson2921 7 лет назад

I have two and they are lovely

@nanfoodles 7 лет назад

I have owned rats most of my life. I have owned many types of pets and none are so loyal, sweet and affectionate as my rats. They are the best pet you can own at any age. Mine are litter trained, come when they are called, do tricks and yet can be left alone for long periods like vacations and they are happy as long as they have companions.

@Jenny-kt2xj 6 лет назад

They're absolute sweethearts. :)

@Jenny-kt2xj 6 лет назад

Never more than 6 feet from a rat? That's certainly true in my house. :P Currently sitting less than a metre away from where my 7 pet rats live.

@dahemac 7 лет назад

Have had beloved pet rats. They die too young. Sweet lovable creatures. Losing them after a couple or few years to RVD or cancer is heartbreaking.

@pichchoco7866 7 лет назад

Awesome...we should give them the credit they're deserve ...

@AshleyJones-me5vp 7 лет назад

My pet rats are great❤ I love them

@thatawesomegeekykid 7 лет назад

I grew up in Alberta, so beyond TV, I never actually saw rats until I moved overseas. It really startled and fascinated me the first few times I saw them running around.

@Qwiila 7 лет назад

We moved into a house next to a walnut grove. You could hear them scurrying in the walls. They filled the spaces in our walls and cupboards with walnuts. Still didn't bother me until they started chewing the cables to our computers. Then one day I decided to reread one of my favorite old books. The spine was intact, but 2/3 of it was just... gone. Started pulling out more of our older books. Entire family collections of books were destroyed, a grave sin that will cause me a little hate for anything. We trained up a kitten and let nature do the rest. I have enough biology under my belt to get why they're valuable, but interpersonally, there is little love lost for their inherently destructive habits.

@jessicacurtis4199 2 года назад

Appreciation of innocuous Leporidae Conejo Skills

@jacenstarheart6256 7 лет назад

Don't you wish you were as smart as Maddie, excellent video!

@paysonterhune290 6 лет назад

Friends. Very cute verminous friends.

@PuppyMintMocha 7 лет назад

I absolutely love rats!! They're SO charismatic and intelligent, and they're very social animals so it's an awesome experience to watch and participate in their social bonds when you adopt them.

@SwordMaster2404 7 лет назад

Great, informative Video! Rats are kind of okay for me, as long as i don't see their tails. They really gross me out :D

@DPRX99 7 лет назад

I just watched a six minute video on rats. My crush on Maddie is getting out of control

@2dayBlue 7 лет назад

Proud mommy of 3 ratties, they are so affectionate, like tiny dogs

@heather0f 7 лет назад

Awww love rats ❤️

@sydneys2859 6 лет назад

Umm BBC did you say it takes 3 months for rats to reach sexual maturity? Meaning roughly 12 weeks.. Last time I checked you have to separate a litter of pinkies by 3 to 4 weeks cause (off the top of my head) rats can start reproducing at about 28 days, maybe it was 21. Please get correct me if I'm wrong.

@sydneys2859 6 лет назад

(I also have two female fancy rats)

@al145 7 лет назад

I had a friend who had some pet rats once, they were nice once I got over the "eww, it's a rat" stigma, and it gave me a new appreciation for them and other small animals. But I don't want them in my house.

@Hamletstwin 7 лет назад

I learned a lot in this video.

@Amy-zb6ph 7 лет назад

I think rats are cute. We don't see a lot of them here. We have chickens and so we sometimes get mice, which are also cute. Unfortunately, between the chickens, who eat mice whole, and the cats, who eat them starting at the head, not many rodents survive here. We do get skunks and I absolutely love them. I often garden at night because, not only do I have insomnia, but it's terribly hot here until it gets a bit late, so I see the skunks rather often. I have been reading a book on my phone many times and had the skunks pass right by me. I have several photos of them walking by me like that and I have never been sprayed. The dog has been sprayed but dogs are less diplomatic when it comes to other animals in the yard.

@maleahlock 6 лет назад

Amy awesomeness. Another night gardener :-D

@danutorr 7 лет назад

I think they're cute lol. I never got how people find them outright disgusting like spiders or roaches.

@goldwolf0606 7 лет назад

Daniel F This is how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ll3TWzeEtIg.html

@danutorr 7 лет назад

Like hell I'm clickin that shit

@kif1983 7 лет назад

Well, I was fine with rats, but then you described all the diseases. I've never seen one though, and I live in rural Wiltshire. Foxes, badgers, birds of prey, field mice and squirrels are just par for the course, but not seen a rat.

@rdizzy1 7 лет назад

There are more than 2.5 million rats roughly in just NYC alone, so 3.5 million can't be the total number.

@woolenhat5796 7 лет назад

Two wild ones in my attic were foes believe me.

@sowrabvattipalli5981 7 лет назад

I don't get scared when I see one rat but a colony of rats give me nightmares

@Mystninja 6 лет назад

I with in 6feet of a family of rattus.

@Mallory-Malkovich 7 лет назад

Are baby rats seriously called 'kittens?'

@paulz.6162 7 лет назад

domesticated rats are cute, but the wild ones, ugh

@rat7763 7 лет назад

Rattata and I beg to differ ;)

@liamcross1921 6 лет назад

domesticated rats are cute but wild ones arent? they're pretty damn similar, just different fur colours

@yvonnesquadrilli8997 7 лет назад

i love them

@DivinePonies 7 лет назад

Omg, who did the green background image? It is horribly stitched in central Asia and North America.

@onestepbeyond5221 7 лет назад

"sorry" No thanks! box & bait!

@AliHSyed 6 лет назад

Didn't you know?! Rats are hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings. The Earth is nothing but an gigantic computer designed and funded by rats. A computer to answer the question of Life, The Universe, and Everything!

@hellsingmongrel 7 лет назад

Rats are super precious, I would LOVE to have one as a pet! My mom is super not ok with that concept, though, so no go for us. ;[

@charlesphilips2045 7 лет назад

Genuine musophobic here. These three things creep me out. Cockroaches, rats and snakes.

@bweatyfingy6503 7 лет назад

MADDIE!!!!!

@locouk 7 лет назад

We've just got to train them to move or eat fatbergs from London sewers and drains. Yum!

@tolerating_it13 6 лет назад

Cute I love rodents

@benquinney2 7 лет назад

The species barrier

@cheztra 7 лет назад

Great video, I like rats

@meginmitchell5600 6 лет назад

All rats and mice are beautiful and have their place in the environment but unless I invite them into my home they are not welcome in the house

@obliviousfafnir01 7 лет назад

This made me want to have pet rats again :3

@neddyladdy 7 лет назад

154 metres was it ? How could we get rats to extractus digitus and start breeding?

@SnoopyDoofie 7 лет назад

When someone uses your name as a verb, you're cool (I "googled" it). Not sure about a rat though ("The guy "ratted" on me).

@suhashg8664 7 лет назад

Rats....the unknown friends......😝😝😃😃

@amisfitpuivk 7 лет назад

Mammals are mammals. Smart and emotional

@bobgeorge283 6 лет назад

i dont see her holding a rat

@IdkMyDude 6 лет назад

Pets rats are extremely friendly and smart. I have one and I love him. Wild one are just.. ew..

@Jenny-kt2xj 6 лет назад

I love rats! They're so friendly. :) You should get your boy a friend, they like to live in groups. ^^

@Robodog334 6 лет назад

i had two rats as pets but I had to give them away because they stank and they caused more rats to appear because they were two females rats!! I still wonder if they're fine to this day :(

@skydragon3857 6 лет назад

so what makes some rats clean and others not? are pet rats always disease free?

@Jenny-kt2xj 6 лет назад

Yes, pet rats are always disease free, unless they've come into contact with an infected wild rat (or mouse). Pet rats are the same species as wild rats (the species is 'rattus norvegicus'), but they are totally different. You see pet rats come from a long line of captive-born rats, selected for temperament and colour. This line dates back to the 18th century (pet rats are therefore considered domesticated animals). It's like comparing a dog to a wolf, they are genetically extremely similar, but they behave very differently. TL;DR: There's two lines of rats: domesticated and wild. Wild = disease and unclean | domesticated = clean and friendly

@kamron_thurmond 7 лет назад

Uninvited rats/mice in my home will not live very long.

@helpme5785 7 лет назад

I love rats 😭

@skipad4306 7 лет назад

5:20 :DDDDDDD

@Sunnyvale877 6 лет назад

Well rats not my favorite mammals. I set traps every fall. I catch at least 10 without fail. They damage wiring, rubber hose’s. Peanut butter work well, smoked bacon for the meat eater’s.

@frank-gavinmoratalla7942 7 лет назад

I'm don't hate rats by any means, I'd just rather have a dog!!

@Jenny-kt2xj 6 лет назад

Rats are like dogs for people who can't have dogs.

@imacommentj259 7 лет назад

well i mean i have had rats as pets before so yeah id have another one they are loyal smart and friendly also i dont get why any one is afraid of any animals (except humans) but imacommentj i hear all of you saying you are afraid of spiders no im afraid of the venom they deliver when they bite me spiders are cute and so are all animals the thing im nervous of is the venom posin or general mauling they dish out even then id be more than happy to come across a bear in the woods as long as there were no cubs around so mama has less incentive to kill me but im weird and dont see non human animals as a threat which seems to be a minority in the real world not on videos like this because for the most part we are all animal lovers

@tinglydingle 7 лет назад

We have ten pet rats, they're so cute and make really great pets! They're about as smart as cats, and have similar levels of personality. Just make sure you don't mix sexes!

@rdizzy1 7 лет назад

Yeah when I first got rats, I bred two rex breeds so I could get some hairless rats and before I could get a hand on the population within like 6 months I had like 50 something rats (12 were totally hairless). Had to buy 2 massive 6 foot cages and put males in one and females in the other and let them die out of old age/ cancer.

@henrysmith2188 7 лет назад

I like rats

@sdmcelroy 7 лет назад

ASMR girl

@MasterAppels 7 лет назад

Mice and rats can do one. My cats keep them far away from my house.

@Blablablarandomguy 7 лет назад

I still associate rats to be dirty and full of disease. The bubonic plague was apocalyptic.

@RogerWazup007 7 лет назад

I want to let a bunch of rats crawl all over me.

@officialanneboonchuy180 7 лет назад

I really like mice but I really hate rats!

@RisqueBisquet 7 лет назад

Having owned both, I can tell you that rats are friendlier and more intelligent than mice.

@officialanneboonchuy180 7 лет назад

Well I used to have chickens with and appearently the rats killed them. First it made me cry and later it made me mad that I felt like that I want to kill them after what they did.

@abrahamwr11 6 лет назад

Rats are nasty and gross, eww. But they also have a helpful side too, hmm.

@Apostate_ofmind 7 лет назад

i would do without animal testing, Unless the testing is being tone BY the rats like in the sample sniffing tests, and not TO the rats.

@RealTalkWithMitch 7 лет назад

If we dont we wont be able to advance in many aspects of science.

@RisqueBisquet 7 лет назад

Animal testing saves lives. Yes, human testing exists, but it's highly regulated and vastly more expensive. Without animal testing, fewer experiments would be made, leading to less safe drugs, developed more slowly, which leads to more dead humans. Don't get me wrong, I love rats and don't want to see them harmed, but putting a rat life and a human life on equal footing is insane.

@MotherOfSuck 7 лет назад

The number of people who would die if we banned animal testing outweighs the animal lives lost for advances in medicine. It can certainly be cut back and regulated better though, especially in the cosmetics sector.

@laurenedge6392 7 лет назад

Event Hʘriךּon screw animal testing...its evil...it needs to be banned

@laurenedge6392 7 лет назад

I would rather for that let the innocent creature die