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Rats - a special report

A special report on rats

Programme about rats. The rodents often strike fear into humans who will feel disgust when they see a rat. But as being kept as pets, rats have also been eaten as a delicacy in the past. Their connection with the spread of the plague in the 1600s however set the precedence for their reputation as disease-carrying vermin.

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