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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2024
- Feared and regarded as dirty, dangerous and diseased, if there is one creature that tops the list of people's most hated animal, it is the much-maligned rat. Yet in Tanzania, scientists have trained rats to detect patients with tuberculosis, but what makes a rat's sense of smell so good?
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If i find a rat like that in my house he can keep my house. I ll also pay his rent.
***** and you later died from a disease introduced into your house by said rat RIP
SunnyD Rats don't harbour any more disease than any other animal
Rats do get a bad rep and the plague wasn't rats at all but fleas, which would have affected other livestock and it didn't help that humans disposed of all waste matter into the streets. Fancy rats and the wild rat are physiologically and psychologically different from each other too. :)
+Bart Dallie best comment ever dude
mioes ايع ايع
Doctor: Alright, we are now going to test you for TB.
*Doctor throws giant rat at patient*
flap
laughed harder than I should
LOVE IT! Can I name her?
You made me laugh
flap j
Damn, Splinter gave up on the Turtles now he’s fighting TB
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Enəɡˈmætɪk LMAOO
Crime fighting is overrated. You have a much bigger impact helping people like this
You are beautiful
It’s so amazing how smart rats are. My three girls know they’re going to get a treat when they hear the ruffling of the treat bag. They hop around and get the zoomies cause they’re so excited for treats. I love them!
BanditoKing the zoomies! I love it
my three rattie boys do the same! except i shake a container filled with cheerios and it's so cute when their ears immediately perk up and they run to the cage doors
My 3 rats did the exact same! They were girls I got them when I was 13 but after 3 years they sadly died, because one died of no cause we think it was old age and the other 2 got a huge lump which we googled was common in rats btw I’m 16 now so it was about last year/few months ago they died 😭
@@helenhoward2715 I'm sorry they died. They only live for about 3 years with good luck or care. They need to be taken to the vet, as often their illness can be cured or at least treated with medicine or surgery. If girl rats are spayed when they're younger, there is also less chance of them growing tumours. and most rats need to be put indefinitely on special antibiotics for their lungs for much of their life because of their delicate respiratory systems. Check out www.ratshackforum.com/ - the most knowledgeable rescue rat people! Great info for next time you're caring for ratties. :)
@@helenhoward2715 fuck u mann who s keeping rats as pets , fuck u frick
This is quite interesting and those rats are huge. I'd love to have one as a pet.
I knew a guy who had a giant rat for a pet. He was HUGE, like almost arm length. Very tame, nice animal and freaking people out with him was the best.
Maindrian Pace lolololololol
Maindrian Pace
Maindrian Pace That would have been brilliant to see...lol
ARM LENGTH? Are you sure it wasn't a small dog? Jesus Christ
Sammy64 ws
"cat sized rats are a myth. They don't get that big. People who say they saw a rat that big probably saw a possum."
I need to show these people this video.
@Lerub Skars I lived in Portland Oregon a few years ago. I left my garage door open and a possum got inside!
Not at all a myth, here in South Africa we have some huge ass rats often bigger than cats or small dogs.
@@dawoodwilliams3652 it probably is, given that they are rodents
lol These are Giant Pouched Rats from Africa; very different from rats found in America.
@Lerub Skars No. You didn't. You saw possums. There are no cat-sized rats. Period.
It is literally anatomically impossible for them.
Arthur Morgan wants to know your location
OUTTA THE DAMN WAY
Howdy sir
Ironic
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I thinks it's little bit late for Arthur 😭😭😭
They still aint half size of New York City Pizza Rats
The ones that teach Turtles Ninjutsu?
@@uraharamitchell7250 yep , those are the ones
The need to hired the NYC rats for the school program 😂🐀🗽
Dude its way bigger tf
Ha someone's uneducated
Holy hot Hell those are some big rats!
chigimonky it's a different species
I've seen dogs smaller than that
chigimonky I'm your 💯 th like!
@Anselmo I've saw mountain rats before, and those things look like they could carry off my aunts chihuahua. Part of me thinks chihauhau owners secretly just want a fancy rat.
I've seen bigger rats where I live. The often get mistaken for a possum at first glance.
Too bad Arthur Morgan didn't have one of these
It would be also helpful if they could detect L U M B A G O
Too soon
Micah is a rat
He did, it was Micah.
i could smell black lung from a mile away
3:50 such cute popcorning at the end!!! this means the rat is very happy, almost like its skipping along like a human
Jesus Christ those rats are bigger than the ones in NYC
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Fancy rats are just domesticated Brown Rats. Though are are domesticated, they haven't been removed enough from wild Brown Rats to become a subspecies.
David Nunez nyc nothing special lil brat. Trust me.
Ruben Medina Jr NYC rats or NYC? Because said person was only commenting about the rats.
No I saw a big rat in NYC
Rats can be trained to detect land mines also!
+szaki And they can also be trained to find people under rubble, much more effectively even then a rescue dog could, they also take alot less time and effort to train then dogs and thier noses are far more receptive and accurat aswell.
I never hated rats, I don't know why! Rats got a bad rap , spreading disease etc... from the middle ages,(same with cats) but if rats kept clean, they can be useful, even good for food as I heard in Asia rat is eaten.
Yeah I red this in an article last year
Animals can detect many things, but who cares,what is the point?
+Aura thats not at all practical
A wild Rattata Appeared
PMFSL!!!
Now if these things were to grow to Raticate size... o_O
@@yasminemobley7858 Raticate is so thicc.
More like a Raticate
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That s a weird dog you got...
LBerger1000
Lol
LBerger1000 Chihuahua mix 😁
Lmfao!!
LBerger1000 *cat
Nice breed of lop
I heard rats could be big but GEEZ!
I want one
These are some special ones.
Pfft, never seen Splinter?
Yes, he IS real!
lol my male rat looks like splinter from the teenage muted ninja turtles lol
Brooklynn boobear Oh, good you specified or people could have thought you meant ANOTHER rat named Splinter.
lol
The animals on this planet seem to have more abilities that the humans. These rats are truly amazing and they are so freaking cute!!!
yeah like the computer your using to type that nonsense.
I don't know, my computer isn't really that cute.......
Rats arent cute, rats are creepy everyone knows that.
young mula Well clearly you are wrong, because I think they are awesome.
Well clearly you are wrong because i think they're not.
Bro if I ever see a rat that size in my house, I’m instantly moving out
I'll let him stay if he chips in on rent
they should train them to diagnose COVID-19 Coronavirus NOWWWW
Because of the nature of it I'm worried they'd actually catch it trying to smell it out but it would definitely be worth a try. Test/lab rats are way smarter and easier to train than people give them credit for. All they see is "ewww rat" not as the small sniffer dogs that like running very fast that they are
I once saw a rat in NYC large enough to pull a horse buggy by itself...!!
Are you sure it wasn't a crackhead?
Daniel Nicklas you just killed me with that!!!
OH! You did not!
Same
UrbanSipfly TMNT in real life?
They're adorable and doing great work.
Abby Beard plz tell me from where rats are ugly!!
Rats make wonderful pets. They just don't live very long.
Lane Hill like they say goodthings don't last long also did you know if they are more healthy then they should be or a miracle happens they can live 1 or 2 more years!
These big guys live up to 7 years though.
@@fandyus4125 yea but people don't really keep these as pets
A few do, I wish it gets more widespread and breeders make these guys domestic. I'd love to have a rabbit sized rat.
@@fandyus4125 mmm I think I'm good with normal rats big rats would be harder to take care of but I do want a rabbit sized rat too tho lol
Imagine having a rat that big in your house
🤢🤢
sara sara init
adorable, I'd just let it live with me XD
I will leave immediately
Nah man I’m movin house😂
I love domesticated rats, they are like little dogs. Wild ones are the mean ones and the ones who carry disease.
I have my own rat. :^D
Debra O'Doherty they are not mean, they do what is required for them to survive
Mike Lord I'm not being picky, I'm being fair..
Wologan B. in this case specifically to wild rats and to all that do what is required for them to survive.
More generally I am being fair to everyone.
ProperGanderSaul or humans could understand that they are the one being filthy...
And that for the safety of rats, we should exterminate ourselves.
Or that there is nothing fair about our interaction with basically everything..
you know, putting things into perspective can be quite easy
Procrastination is a powerful thing...smh
Why so much hate?
How is that hate?
Vasto Lorde
They said "smh". I assume it stands for "So Much Hate".
+JanetStarChild smh stands for "shake my head"
LOL
Any one who keeps rats as pets already knows how good their nose is. My boys can smell me open the yogurt drops from 3 rooms away 😂
1st that's master splinter😂😂😂
2nd is that even a rat I thought that was a rabbit
3rd that rat is mutated
Does anybody else want a giant rat now too?
Yeah for shooting practice ....
Well they have there uses for experiment . To save our lives and other things .
um no....i dont even wanna see the tiny mouse terrorizing me where i live...its their tails, teh tails are so ugly to me
yeeess, i love rats !!! i still miss my guido, he died in his sleep 3 years ago, that lil guy had a big place in my heart :)
Shannonbarnesdr1
Are how loverly if I had Guido and he died not only would he have had a place in my heart when he died he would of had a place on my plate he would of gone down well with some veg and potatoes cooked medium with a nice glass of red wine .
Mine died 2 days ago. We loved him. :'(
I wonder if that's where my ex got his high school diploma
AHHAAAAAAA
😂😂😂
Yes, they are. And that's precisely the problem.
Paula Abolafia just be aware that they stink and are gonna outsmart you every chance they get. XD
😂😂😂
I'll never forget the human rat that crawled up my arm, kissed my cheek, and jumped off. I wanted to shed my skin immediately.
That Lab was taken over by rats. Now patients see those rats.
Edit: the trainers are training the new born rats.
So, the rats take home the idea that tuberculosis is delicious.
+Cabhan Listis TB is not a virus. It is a bacterium.
+Cabhan Listis
No, they learn that humans give food when you play find the smell and it's their favourite game.
+Ireallyreally Hategoogle exactly it basically means that 😂 they are trained to smell with a reward so tuberculosis is what rats smell those trained expect a treat 😂
These amazing animals are also sniffing out landmines in Angola - with an equally good detection time. When it comes to mines made of plastic, glass, wood and others, intended to make detection difficult to the usual tools like metal detectors and the like,the Giant Rat and their handlers can help clear an area in an astonishing speed compared to a lone demineur with his knife. Also, they are predominantly women in these jobs, who have a vested interest in clearing small home farming plots and the roads and trails to and from water sources. Besides, they're so damn cute!
Why have a dog that barks all the time when you can just have a giant, friendly rat for a pet! They need love too!
I think these are actually adorable, look at the little face and the big ears. 😍
Somehow, ones that are bigger than normal, but not this big, make me feel more uneasy.
Rats are adorable! They make great pets due to there intelligence and they each had very charming and unique personalities.
The narrator mistakingly called TB a virus. That's pretty bad.
"I'm one of the best cheese noses in UK" haha
If a rat can smell cheese from a mile away, imagine how good their cooking must be.
OMG They are sooo cute! and giant!
I want a giant rat...I need one now!
Me too! Someone breeds then in Texas. I am trying to find some closer to me but I WILL have one! Lol. Best pet ever!
Yea lots of giant rats are bread in Texas....some of them even migrate to Washington....hmmm BUSH's
+Gentle StormToo Hahahaha. But that is a huge insult to rats lol.
I’m big enough to know when I’ve been beat :)
awwwwwwwwwwwww!!! I had three rats and I miss them so much! rats are so misunderstood. l love this
And I thought it was impressive when I saw rats fetching money, jumping on demand, responding to their name, or playing fetch. XD
Master splinter
Awww they are cute!
***** I shoot rats in the park every weekend. Also feral cats and kittens.
Robert Gage
kudos man.
Robert Gage Doesn't surprise me, sociopathic & psychopathic personalities often enjoy killing animals for sport.
Robert Gage and why would anyone want to know that?
Sam Feldstein Because it saves lives
Awww, look at the chunky boi, I just wanna cuddle him
2:18 THOSE CHEEKS😄😍
that huge rat is actually cute!
As long as they don't hurt the rats I think this is really good. :) Thumbs up from me!
"Eight sniffs per second" - why is that so cute? Rats are amazing. I wished our fancy rats would live as long as a gambian giant pouched rat. They're adorable, but pretty hard to keep as a pet.
Be kind to ALL creatures.
rats are beautiful and misunderstood they don't all carry diseases but most humans do!
joshua price wrong!
zman4791 ...it’s not a good argument if all you can say is “wrong”.
Samantha Nickerson do some research
omg its huge! I want it!!!
+katlynn perez that's what she said.
***** ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
katlynn perez
Do you like Netflix?
+katlynn perez netflix and chill? :'D
Yurnero93 yee baby ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)
omg I LOVE THEM! These lads are absolutely mASSIve
“Mandys nose makes about 8 sniffs per second” lolol
🔳 Gambien Pouched Rats.... I love them. They are also trained to detect land mines. Such an amazing creature. Rats live about 2-3 years, but the Gambian Pouched Rat lives 7 years. ツ
Your average sized rat can chew through steel. Imagine how much damage a rat that size can do.
The Anarchist No more damage than a human can do
johandriss imagine rats making nukes...
OH NO!!! MY THREAD HAS ATTRACTED LIBTARD HIPPIES!!!
Not true. I have a pet rat and he has not, in fact, gnawed through his cage.
The bars are like a tenth of an inch thick.
Hero Rats!! They also help detect land mines! Cute heroes 💖💖💖
Master Splinter? So this is what you are doing now. Can't fool us 😆
those rats are huge... omg...
i would run tbh
They're gambian pouched rats and they're actually very sweet animals if looked after properly. :)
How do the black guys need subtitles. I can understand them perfectly.
I understand to them.
Fourz Ell Their voices sounded lower and quieter to me. Who knows, maybe they wanted to have subtitles.
Fourz Ell My phone says there's 21 replies but I only see 3.
Meepin Snek same I see 44 replies but says 4 actual replies
Racism at its finest
You know what's also impressive about giant rats? They make all of the rules.
How cute is that? 8 sniffs per second, and they sniff in stereo... :)
How high is his snufflecount??? 8 sniffs per second, Sir!
I wish I could get a giant African pouched rat as a pet, but they're unfortunately banned in Canada. Dammit. They look so neat! I've had standard pet rats for about 20 years, and have always been amazed at their intelligence, sweet natures, capacity for surprisingly deep emotions, and playfulness. They really are the best pets, especially for apartments or condos. I know that giant African pouched rats have only been domesticated for about 20 years, so they are still essentially tamed wild animals instead of pets though. Still, despite that, I hope I can get one someday.
There are some adorable videos of some people have as pets, I am determined to find one! I am facing the unavoidable loss of my heart rat, I am nursing her now and praying, but I would so love a cat sized rat that lived so much longer! They make the cutest sounds ever, and there is a video of a young one popcorning around a normal size rat, OMG total cuteness overload! I really really need one:)
alterego if you have a petting zoo permit you can adopt one
I live in Africa and there are rodents the size of cats. You're welcome to have them all..for free
alterego I want to move to Canada!
Go live in the wild. Not in an apartment
these rats kind of reminds me of the nicer version of skeevers in skyrim.
Rats are saints compared to skeevers
Ice "Frosty" Raven Yeah!
Ice "Frosty" Raven hello dragonborn!
Bro Chuck E. Cheese gotta up his game
Micah must’ve known Arthur had TB before he even showed symptoms
TB or not TB. That is the question!
NYC subway rats are bigger!
They really aren't. Human ignorance and fear magnifies the size of animals, just like it does with spiders.
dude relax it was a joke lol
Der Grossmann Actually, they are. There were some rats that are the size of cats.
London street rats are like, rat ninjas! haha!
What the heck? So you are saying that they attack?
Ewww...How anyone could find a rat cute is beyond me haha.
Awesome work!
The most heartbreaking part is how 1,500 people DIE every single DAY in Africa from TB alone...just TB. I can't even begin to imagine that...a disease that we almost eradicated decades ago here, you almost never hear about, and we rarely give thought to. Yet a few thousand miles away human beings are dying in droves absolutely horrible deaths while I'm here worrying about something petty like the added features of the next iPhone. It's a sobering reminder of the things I take for granted and shouldn't.
We have dogs and now giant rats, that's cool. Animals have superpowers.
It’s all fun and games until the rat jumps in your face and you realize you have bubonic plague
Amazing what rats can do and able to do
they are so adorable... i used to live in south africa... i don't know how these big ones differ from the regular fancy rats, but I would love to get these... Unless they are basically big wild rats
I live in S.A. Too. R u in joburg?
Isabella Barrios I lived in CapeTown (but spent most of my time in Stellies)
I want to live in South Africa.
horseygurl143 it's very lovely.
Lol You do know that fancy rats ARE just the same as wild Norway rats, right? I know several people that have ended up raising orphan wild rats who lived with their fancy pets and you wouldn't know the difference:) I would LOVE to have one of these giant rats:)
TB's a bacteria not a virus. The rat can actually make a rather affectionate pet if nurtured properly.
WHERE WAS HE WHEN ARTHUR NEEDED HIM 😢😢😢😢
He's in front of Arthur and he's beating him
I want to see more videos on this type of animal. I love their long bodies and big ears.
so that chees expert is a nosy lol
I love these giant smart babies ;u;
Wow Mandy is huge and adorable as well
I am still so amazed there are rats that big.
I want to know how far along they are in domesticating this species for pets--I WANT ONE.
I read that this particular species had been specifically domesticated bred for 20 years or so.
It's hard to imagine a major genetic shift in so little time but then again rodents have such quick and copioius fecundity, there would be a lot of generations in 20 years. Do you know if any color morphs have come out of it?
@@audreymuzingo933 no color morphs and they are very domesticated however they can be very destructive to property if you don't keep an eye on them.
Hi I'm not sure if u can buy these rats however you can buy fancy rats (dumbo rats ) or there slightly different brothers top eared rats there both the same it's just there ears are in different positions there so loveing and have a large selection of coat colours and types such as hair less and rex and colours like husky and Siamese they have to have care 24/7 and have at least one other rat with them as if not they will get Barry depressed the also need a verry tall large cage and lots of hammocks hides and so Manny other toys lol if your interested I suggest the channel the rat guru she is verry good with rats and rescues them she has much more in depth videos on this topic she's not posting as much as she used to as here main pet rat passed away however she now posts 1 time a month pleas go check her out it helped me decide whether or not they are the right pets for me I hope this helped u sorry this is 9 months late lol
@@themothman4935 not bring mean just a small correction. Top ear rats are fancies and if the ears are on the side its a
Dumbo everything elsr is pretty good and you need to find a breeder who will trust you with their babies. I am an admin on facebooks biggest rat page The Rat Fan Club been doing it for years now so i am sure i could easily get a pouchy when i want one.
These rats are both amazing in talent and looks like great pets as well!! Are they kept as pets? I have three rattus norvegicus (your normal wild/pet rat) but I'd love one of these! they looked very friendly and sociable =)
Looks like Oblivion
If i ever see a rat that big in my room I'll be walking in stilts for the rest of my life
I want these rats as pets, they are so cute and smart and easy to be tamed!
Hau au au those giant rats are so cute! I wanna take them home! :3
my rat has a neurological condition that makes him less likely to learn a lot but he knows his name and how to spin and that is good enough for me
"Chihuahuas"
Shawn Shawn
Haha that's what I name my chihuahua everyday I call her rat face
Aw, they didn't even give the poor cheese man a chance XD
i find them cute
people might say rats are disgusting but they make excellent pets
They look like foot soldiers for a Supreme capybara overlord
I want a giant rat.
I once had a pet mouse called Rover. He was a great friend to me & I took him everywhere, even the swimming pool, but the mean people wouldn't let him in. He died when my brother accidentally put curry powder in his food. I'll never forget him though, he'd have been six yrs old today.
Jack Montgomery do mice live six years long
Very nice. Rats are very intelligent. I had two. Skinny gray female and fat white male. I kept them in separate cages. The female liked going down my shirt but always came back up.
3:52 Now that's one test we won't be trying on Banu but we will x-ray his genitals for any signs of the cheese superhero disease.