Rat
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Missing from Zoo Admin: probably only 1 is at ZA because there was a file name conflict with 2 different ones at ZA using rat.zip. (Technically, one was rat.zip and the other was Rat.zip.)
Author: polubing
Keywords: real animals
Originally Released Aug 22, 2006 at Zoo Admin
File Size: 189.4 KB
Compatibility: All Game Versions
Description: This rat has a high reproductive rate, and I mean HIGH. Will need lots of room quickly. I tried to make it as realistic as I could, and that means litters of 8, not 4. My dad raises rats for snake food and he said that rats can become pregnant immediately after giving birth. This created problems for me, so I put a little delay in. There will probably be an update.
(http://www.ztcdd.org/DD/ZAScreens/animals/rats.jpg)
Additional info:
Conflict: uca: E3031985 = Ferret by Melanie (ZA) and Rat by polubing (ZA)
ztd name conflict: Rat.ztd = Rat by Lehner (ZA) and Rat by Polubing (ZA)
Rat.ztd uca: E3031985 dated 21 August 2006
Results From Configuration Checking:
e3031985.uca date: Mon Aug 21 18:52:32 2006
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Animal Type: E3031985
Rat
The Black Rat occurs in a great many varieties and races, or subspecies, of
which few are actually black, despite the common name. Believed to have come
from Southeast Asia, this species spread through Europe centuries ago, long
before the arrival of the Norway Rat. It appeared in Central and South America
in the mid-16th century, evidently carried there aboard Spanish ships; it
arrived in North America with the early colonists at Jamestown in 1609, and
gradually spread across the continent. Formerly much more common, it has often
been displaced by the slightly larger and more aggressive Norway Rat; this may
be because the Black Rat does better in tropical climates and the Norway Rat
in temperate climates, rather than because of overt competition. As Black Rats
are far more common than Norway Rats on ships, they continue to be
reintroduced at seaports. Excellent climbers, in the South they live in the
upper stories of buildings; they also make nests in tangled vines and in
trees. Omnivorous but partial to grain, the Black Rat does enormous damage in
docks and warehouses, contaminating with its droppings what it does not eat.
Like other rats, it carries a number of diseases, including bubonic plague,
which is transmitted by its fleas. Snakes, owls, dogs, and cats are its chief
predators.
(plus 6 other paragraphs)
Animal Characteristics:
Habitat: Deciduous Forest; Location: Europe
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 75.
Preferred shelter: Large Stable.
Animal can climb objects.
Exhibit Preferences:
Foliage:
Wild Olive Tree, Elm Tree, Pacific Dogwood Tree, Cherry Tree
Lodgepole Pine Tree, Maple Tree, Fir Tree, Pine Tree, Bamboo
Thornless Mesquite Tree, Yew Tree, Birch Tree, Spruce Tree, Yellow Cedar Tree
Western Larch Tree, Trembling Aspen Tree, Globe Willow Tree
Japanese Maple Tree, Deciduous Bush, Paper Birch Tree, Weeping Willow Tree
White Oak Tree, Western Red Cedar Tree, Chinese Fir Tree
Himalayan Birch Tree, Western Juniper Tree, Himalayan Pine Tree, Sage Bush
Broadleaf Bush, Pine Bush, Club Moss Shrub (DD), Walchian Conifer Tree (DD)
Dawn Redwood Tree (DD), Gingko Tree (DD), Glossopteris Tree (DD)
Lepidodendron Tree (DD), Magnolia Tree (DD), Monkey Puzzle Tree (DD)
Norfolk Island Pine Tree (DD), Bonsai (CC), Snowbell Tree (CC)
Rocks:
Deciduous Forest Rock - Formation, Highland Rock - Large
Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation, Medium Highland Rock (DD)
Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)
Exhibit Construction:
Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 6-1000 with 100 squares for each adult.
Exhibit size (for 6 adults): 600 grid squares
Terrain (for exhibit with 600 grid squares):
150 Coniferous Floor, 24 Sand, 24 Dirt, 36 Brown Stone, 36 Gray Stone
66 Grass, 78 Fresh Water, 78 Gravel, 108 Deciduous Floor
Foliage (for exhibit with 600 grid squares):
No foliage should be used.
Rocks (for exhibit with 600 grid squares):
No rocks should be used.