What is a giant rat?

A giant rat is a commonly performed animal in fictional stories, especially imagination, where it is often a challenge that must be defeated by a hero. This screenplay was parodied in the iconic film from 1987 The Princess Bride . The concept of giant rats is probably very old, but the most famous recent mention was in Adventure Sussex Vampire , the story of Sherlock Holmes from 1924 Sir Arthur Conan Doyl. In the story Holmes says: " Matilda Briggs was not the title of young woman, Watson, ... it was a ship associated with a giant sumat rasp, a story for which the world will not happen yet. Rats are about half of this size.women.

rodents living in places other than Sumatra are sometimes wrong like a "giant rat" because of their size. These include Capybara, the largest living rodent in the world and the Gambian rat, the largest muroid (related mouse and rats) in the world. Capybara, which lives throughout South America, can grow up to 4.3 ft (1.3 m) long and weigh up to 140 lb (65 kg). Capybaras have extremely effective digestive systems and eat 6-8 pounds of water grasses a day to survive. The Gambian Rat is about half the size of the capi, with the largest individuals measuring about 2 ft in Lenugth. Gambia, who threw herself from Africa, where it is sometimes used to bind ground mines. Due to its small weight, they can cross these mines without launching.