Word: norvegicus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is bigger and meaner. Sometimes brown rats massacre black rats, but more commonly they interbreed, blending the species into an intermediate type. The U.S., which has both kinds (and others too), is a melting pot for rats...