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Rodents Facts

The average adult squirrel needs about a pound of food per week.
Rodents are thought to be responsible for more deaths than all the wars over the last 1000 years.
It’s estimated that a single cute little house mouse leaves behind 3,000 microdroplets of urine a day.
Squirrels are among the top causes of power outages across the U.S.
The amount of food destroyed by rodents each year is enough to feed over 200 Million people.
In the U.S. alone, rats cause roughly $20 billion in damage to homes, businesses, and agriculture every year.
Squirrels have four front teeth that grow continuously, at a rate of about six inches per year which must be kept in-check by constant gnawing.

Rodents (from Latin Rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents (2,277 species); they are found in vast numbers on all continents except Antarctica. They are the most diversified mammalian order and live in a variety of terrestrial habitats, including human-made environments.
Rats will chew on anything that is not harder than their teeth. The Mohs Scale, developed by German mineralogist Friedrich Moh in 1812, measures the hardness of gemstones and minerals based on their ability to scratch another gemstone or mineral. The scale ranks from 1 (softest, such as Talc) to 10 (hardest, such as Diamonds). Rat teeth rank about 5.5 on the Mohs Scale, harder than iron or copper. Human tooth enamel only ranks about 5 on the Mohs Scale.

Because their teeth are so hard, rats are able to chew through most of the materials people use to keep them out, such as:

Super strong teeth are not the only superpower like trait these rodents possess. Rats can fall 50 feet without injury; they can swim and tread water for 3 days without drowning; they can squeeze through openings the size of a quarter; they breed at an astonishing rate, rapidly populating any given area; and last but not least, their genes have mutated, making them immune to most rat poisons.

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