Rats. All about rats. A nice concise and tidy little volume with nine chapters ranging from "Animal or Monster" to "Man and Rat." Nicely illustrated with a lot of historical content, including a pretty definitive chapter on "Rat Kings." A rat king is a conglomeration of rats tied at the tail. So far, all rat kings have been posthumous, postmortem, and quite dead. In addition to this delectable subject, there is nice coverage of rat behavior from jumping to humping.

There is definitely a larger body of literature on the genus Rattus but the casual rat-o-phile can't go wrong in obtaining a used copy of this book to add to their library.

Rats ho! ( )