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Rat : how the world's most notorious rodent clawed its way to the top / Jerry Langton.
- Title
- Rat : how the world's most notorious rodent clawed its way to the top / Jerry Langton.
- Author
- Langton, Jerry, 1965-
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QL737.R666 L345 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 207 p.; 22 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously published: Toronto : Key Porter Books, 2006.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780312363840
- 0312363842
- LCCN
- ^^2007012961
- OCLC
- 122309381
- SCSB-10014720
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library