Hearing about the "rat king", most often remember the famous fairy tale of Hoffmann "Nutcracker and Mouse King". In a fairy tale, a terrible tried monster turned a little prince into a wooden New Year's toy. In the folk interpretation, the rat king is a lord of rats, which manages his subjects, and they feed and serve it. So was the fabulous villain the real prototype? What do scientists say?
There are different sophisticated hypotheses in the people. They are filled with mysticism and empower the king with a dark world, various supernatural abilities.
Serious studies say that in rat stars there is no pronounced coginction of individuals. Here there are leaders like males and females, but the dominant position allows them only to occupy the best shelter. Also in the conditions of a high population density, when there is too many rats on a unit of space, it is an individual leader, first of all, participate in reproduction.
As for the prototype of the "Nutcracker" fairy tale, it was the basis of it a rare natural phenomenon, which the finds of the corpses of such "kings" say: the remains of rats with confused tails were detected. Animals themselves could not wonder and died from hunger. There are other assumptions.
Rats and mice can be frightened by sounds or smells, manual individuals can even be trained, but to force wild rats anywhere to perform certain actions. A person is not capable of.
Now I will tell you the job that happened in my eyes. And you decide: the rat Queen is a myth or reality?
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Adam Eremeevich - Head of the Material Warehouse of the Rostov Furniture Firm "Don" nervously hung the cigarette in the lid from the soapon and the warehouse captured:
"It's necessary," he mumbled, smoothing red-gray strands hanging from the nape, "did not appear in the morning!
Zavladel opened the door and crushed out in a gray mist:
- Vasily Ivanovich! Vasya, Vassenka, where are you, happy friendship?
Skathers, he approached the chopper and turned on full light. Looking a barrel with a resin and ammonium chloride, looked at the drawers with accessories - did not have anywhere.
Behind the column saw the bag with potatoes, which the day before yesterday brought the cum from the garden.
- I got well, there is no living from them. He said, drove into the garage, and he, - Yeremeevich with his hand waved his hand. - It is not different how to choke Vasya, the creatures of these are uncomfortable! Here is the grief!
He went around the whole warehouse, even squeezed between the stacks of blanks, but the favorite and friend is a hefty gray cat Vasily Ivanovich with robbing green eyes - how to fall through the ground!
The material warehouse of the furniture company bordered with a district vegetable base. Therefore, the presence of rats in the warehouse did not surprise, especially after they rinsed the bags with casein glue remaining from time immemorial. The glue was lying in the far corner by unnecessary capital: it was not long for a long time. It seems to be stored, there is no need to choke.
But Casein became a dessert for local rats. Especially he loved the Mashka - a huge red rat rat, the queen of the local squad of rodents. She, as a rule, came to the bags in the evening and brazenly gave rise to a delicacy in a circle of friends, not paying attention to either Vasily or even on the head of the head.
Mashka Rats "Okrestil" Eremeevich. He also crowned her after unsuccessful struggle. Sunny and smart, she easily accounted for all destruction tricks and successfully saved their rhodations. I even laughed, looking at tray with cheese and lard, installed by the zerklad. At least, so approved Adam Yeremeevich, telling the incredible story of a thick aunt from the SanEpidemstancy, which regularly came to scatter the poison for the unnecessary guests:
- Tanya, you will not believe, "he said, rounded his eyes," I watched the last time, when you scattered poison ... Stood behind the column, meters in seven, and what do you think? They, bastards, came up - ahead of the Mashka. I sniffed everything, then turned my head and ordered something near the rattled rat. She began to nibble and rolled out. The rest observed, no one even tried!
What is it? They have a brainstorm for anything! Yes, I forgot the most important thing: Mashka, after all this, turned his head into my direction and laughed mocking, she is not lying to her! Well, maybe not laughed, but smiled, bitch, in the whole mouth!
Vasily, ask? And what is Basil, he is on the gun shot to them ... that he, a fool, or what? And not that afraid, but the meetings are not looking! He has neutrality with them.
With me, he mainly. Went, got drunk - and on the laying. So you have to cohabit. Used. They do not deliver big trouble to me: there is no edible in a warehouse, so we seem to be partnerships! And with Mashka, I even greet, sometimes we will reinfect in the word, when I feed even if it remains from lunch.
... On the eve of the disappearance of Vasily Ivanovich, Eremeevich had a birthday, he decided to cover the festive table at the workplace and invite Nura - a plump account holder with a vegetable base, with which he had a long-reason relationship. Bought a grill chicken, Chebureks and a bottle of beloved Nurea Kagora.
In anticipation of a pleasant evening, Eremeevich, rubbing his hands, climbed to invite Nura through the hole in the fence. When they appeared in the captures, the Mashka and friends ended the defeat of the festive table. Chicken bones and grizzles of Cheburekov in disarray were lying on the table. Even the napkins were devoured, whose scraps were mixed with union! Only a bottle of wine touched.
Yeremeevich Radval: Oral, heathed his feet and launched a stool into the mask. The planned friendship won, not having time to develop. And here I am missing Vasily Ivanovich!
From the sad thoughts of the Zavskold, the Fedor Fedor, who arrived at Gazelle for the accessories. Having loaded the three boxes, Fedya disappeared behind the ramp to ignite and heard a complainant meowing in burdocks. Vaska was very sophisticated: they drove the ear, the nose, the rear left paw. He was lying in the blood and moaning plaintively.
Adam Eremeevich Okrew, wrapped his friend to the jacket and rushed with Fedor to Gazelle to Valentine's cousin, working as a doctor in a veterinary clinic.
Vaska out of turn neatly laid on the table. Valentina scored a syringe. Eremeevich, an extensive, wrinkled and rubbed his ass, when Vaska did an injection, poking the face when processing and dressing his paws ... In general, the whole soul wanted to take on at least part of his heart pain.
Valya, having completed the work and pacifying the beauty, said Eremeevich:
- I'll call you today - they have their own home for the Nakhichevan market *. Husher husband and three dogs. I treated one. Funny Psyche, Fox Terrier Geisha. She has straight in one place! So this acquaintance told that the geisha of all rats they have ** handed over, and at the same time heroes ... and their neighborhoods. The scandal was above the roof! I had to pay for chickens. So from the geisha they only have noise-taramas and other troubles. I think they will not refuse me, the season of hunting did not come - they will give it to the warehouse for a week, and they will rest. She will brighten with your grief!
On the very first day, Geisha cried and brought under the door of the captures of six rats. Seeing the corpses of enemies, Eremeevich published the Military Indian Cleanch and sacrificed a cloud of honor.
It all started wonderful ... However, the circumstances of the force of force arose very soon: the geisha did not digest Vasily Ivanovich, who had to move from the bed on the closet. Geisha Lyala, as announced, daring at the top shelves of the cabinet, splashed saliva. He behaved, from the point of view of the Zavsklad, is simply indecent, not in gentlemen!
Eremeevich had a head from constant noise, and he drank analgin. Vaska had to feed from her hands or close the door of the capture on the goals and descend the wounded to the floor.
Eremeevich stood five days. During this time, Geisha helped seventeen rats, broke a favorite tea mug with red hearts - a gift of the nurses, he dried up almost new leather shoes, brushed the phone to the floor, I said, and after and completely sprayed the telephone wire, there was a Casein out of three bags ...
And most importantly, Vasily Ivanovich brought to the pre-infarction state. Yeremeevich pointed his tincture of her mother-in-law with Valerian.
But the Masha turned out to be geisha not on the teeth. She, like Kutuzov with Borodino, led the remaining tales on the vegetable base - they were in full security.
The day after the deportation of Geisha to Nakhichevan Adam Yeremeevich, by ordering the warehouse, saw between bags with a casual mask.
The view of her was evil, but stumbling. The left ear dried, blood dried on the wool. Black round eyes on a wide face did not foretell anything good. She moved a gray-pink tail, as if by saying it, which remained unsecumbered. Then contemptuously turned away from the gravily, in her opinion, the partner-Zavessklad, and slowly, without fuss, launched, but Majestically passed to the hole in the floor.
Adam Eremeevich, spat from his annoyance and immersed the bags with casein onto a warehouse trolley to remove this dirtiness in the oxus near the fence of a vegetable base. The words "let's live together" turned around earlier in the head of Eremeevich and hung in the thoughts of his cosmos.
Note:
* Nakhichevan Bazaar - located on the market square of the Proletarian district of Rostov-on-Don. In the XVIII century, the decree of Empress Catherine II Crimean Armenians were given the right to live on Don. They first built the settlement of Norkhichevan, which turned over time to the city of Nakhichevan with the border passing through the current theatrical square. From her began the countdown of streets that called lines ... Streets began with a nolic line and went higher. I at my time lived on the 33rd line.
** Bases (Turk.) - Cossack barnyard.
Author - Vadim Garin
Source - Springzhizni.ru.