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Common Rat
Rattus norvegicus
This species is resident on the Kinson Common throughout the year and everyone is well aware of its description and appearance! Climbing, swimming and diving, are esssential skills it uses in its wide-ranging quest for food.
Food. It eats anything ranging from seed to wild animals, and it will also eats its own young.
Breeding. Breeding takes place either underground or in any hard to access area. At the age of six months it can breed and up to five litters each producing as many as ten young are born in one year
Signs. Droppings, gnawed food and greasy runaways. Daily journeys
along the Common`s stream banks, especially in damper conditions, can be observed.
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