The roof rat feces are spindle shaped and reach about 1 2 inch in size the norway rat s droppings have a capsule shape.
Pictures of roof rats and norway rats.
Adults generally live up to one year in the wild.
Norway rats tend to look more well fed and rounder than roof rats with small eyes close set ears and a shorter tail.
Roof rats prefer to build their nests and live in dense cover and shadows of thick shrubbery vine covered trees power lines and.
They re typically found within 100 miles of the gulf coastline or the coastline of the western united states.
While we have focused on roof rats and norway rats as being vermin and unwelcome as unlikely as it may seem these rats do have a positive trait.
Females can have three to 12 litters per year and litters may number from 4 to 22.
Roof rat nests.
Thus roof rats usually have little problems living and making their nests in places that are located off the ground unlike their rat cousins the norway rat which is an underground burrower.
Norway rats reach sexual maturity in 2 to 5 months and can breed any month of the year.
Norway rats and roof rats will leave a hind foot track of about 3 4 1 inch where a mouse s track measure s 3 8 of an inch or less.
Roof rats being the smaller sized ones with a considerably slender body.
Also called the black rat ship rat or old english rat the roof rat measures 6 8 inches long and has a tail that s slightly longer than its body.
Due to their genes being 90 equivalent to that of humans medical research on rats has allowed for many significant strides in the study of human diseases.
Though there are many types of rats found across the mid atlantic states two that cause issues for residents and business owners are roof rats and norway rats.
Norway rats are large bulky rodents nearly synonymous with human habitation.
Facts about rats roof rat or black rat.
On the basis of the tail size.
They have stiff dark gray or brown fur and scaly tails to go with their hairless ears.
Because norway rats tend to be larger their droppings are also larger about 3 4 inch long whereas roof rat droppings are usually about half an inch.
The droppings are capsule shaped and have blunt ends.
Roof rats possessing a long tail.
Roof rats will also make tunnels through insulation and will leave chew marks wood pipes.
Norway rats will leave a mark as they drag their tails between their feet.
The diet of the roof rats is entirely different from their brethren species.
While these pests may look the same to the untrained eye they do differ in appearance size and behavior.
While roof rats excel scaling your roof norway rats are powerful swimmers.
The norway rat droppings are 1 4 to 1 2 inch in length.
Roof rats are not as common as norway rats.
Also known as brown rats or sewer rats these pests can grow to 15 inches in length from nose to tail.
