RAT: HOW THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS RODENT CLAWED ITS WAY TO THE TOP
Book ID/图书代码： 07500006B08457
English Summary/英文概要： No creature on earth is more feared,intensely loathed or inspires more squeamish dread than the rat.Its crimes are many: dirty and disgusting carrier of disease and plagues;beady-eyed harbinger of death and destroyer of civilization; an controlled-and uncontrollable-menace to modern society;the quintessential literary archetype for the lowest of the low ,the shifty and incorrigibly dishonest.
All true,as Jerry Langton chronicles in this compulsively readable biography of the
rat.However,the rat is also—and perhaps more importantly—a stunning remarkable and even elegant example of pure evolutionary adaptation.Over millennia the rat has managed to colonize virtually every continent of the globe.Even to thrive—as many resident of any major city will attest—often under the harshest and most inhospitable conditions.Unlike other of nature’s amazing creatures,however,the rat is universally revailed and despised.
How come?
In Rat:How the world’s most notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top,Jerry Langton untangles fact from fiction as he explores the complicated and complex history ,physiology,habits and behaviour of the rat.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在地球上恐怕没有第二种生物象老鼠一样会让人们感到恐惧害怕，极度厌恶而且会引起呕吐。老鼠的害处有以下几点：肮脏且是可恶的细菌传播者，传播疾病和瘟疫；现代文明的破坏者，哪儿有它哪儿就预示着死亡。无论老鼠的数量是否处于人们的控制之下,它们对现代社会来说始终都是威胁。而在文学作品的精髓中老鼠是处于社会最底层人的原形，代表了一些狡诈阴险，不可救药，背信弃义的人。
事实确是如此，正如杰瑞 兰顿在这本通俗易懂的传记中所描述的一样。然而，在人类进化史中，老鼠也是真正能够适应环境变化的典型例子，可以用惊人，厉害甚至于一流这样的词语来形容它适应环境的能力。在过去的几千年里老鼠已经成功地“占领”了世界的每一块大陆，有的甚至能在最艰苦和最困难的情况下迅速繁衍，这点可以从任何一个大城市的居民口中得到证实。但是，和自然界其他令人喜欢的生物不同，老鼠受到全世界人民的鄙视和唾弃。
但是老鼠为什么能够在全世界迅速繁衍呢？
在这本《老鼠：世界上最坏名声的锯齿类动物数量何以最大》书中，杰瑞 兰顿从鼠类发展的复杂历史,老鼠的生活习性,生理学的角度深入剖析了这个问题。
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About the Author/作者介绍： JERRY LANGTON is a freelance journalist who frequently writes for The Globe and the Mail and the Toronto Star.In doing research for Rat ,Langton ventured into the sewers and alleys to meet the infamous rodents face to face.He lives—relatively rat-free—in Toronto。
杰瑞 兰顿是一个自由记者，常常为《全球》《每日邮报》，《多伦多明星报》攥写文章。为了深入研究老鼠的生活习性，他敢于进入污水沟和小巷，亲自看见了那些臭名昭著的啮齿目动物。他现在居住在多伦多，那是一个老鼠相对较少的城市。
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