Russians from the village of Emmaus in the Tver region caught a giant rat the size of a beaver in their house. This was reported by the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Tver". Residents of a private house first noticed the rodent in the kitchen, when he tried to steal the candy left there. The rat was very large, its size was comparable to that of a beaver or a badger. In search of food, she ransacked the room.
According to the Afanasy-Business news portal, the animal was caught and killed on the same day. In the plot of the Tver TV channel, he was called a "ship rat". Andrei Zinoviev, head of the Department of Zoology and Physiology at Tver State University, said in an interview that this is an atypical size for rats. He suggested that the rodent was able to grow to this size due to the fact that all this time it was in favorable conditions and did not starve. The plot warned that rats are carriers of plague and other dangerous diseases.
Therefore, experts do not recommend driving them into a corner and even more so catching them with your hands. In this case, the rat can not only bite, but also try to attack. Earlier, residents of the Swedish city of Sundsvall complained about the invasion of rats, which, according to eyewitnesses, were the size of cats. Local authorities warned of the dangers of these rodents and recommended keeping doors and windows closed. It is believed that the huge number of abnormally large rats was caused by the recycling center, which is in the process of moving.