"when she was plaintiff in the landmark American case Roe v. Wade. Jane Doe is used in United States police investigations when the identity of a female victim is unknown or incorrect, and by hospitals to refer to a female corpse or patient whose identity is unknown. Jane (given name) Jane is a feminine given name. It is the English form of the Old French name Jehanne, which was an old feminine form of the male name Johannes or Ioannes (also the source of the English name John), a Latin form of the Greek name (Iōannēs), which is derived from"
"to true rats, but are not members of the genus ""Rattus"". Male rats are called bucks, unmated females are called does, pregnant or parent females are called dams, and infants are called kittens or pups. A group of rats is referred to as a mischief. The common species are opportunistic survivors and often live with and near humans; therefore, they are known as commensals. They may cause substantial food losses, especially in developing countries. However, the widely distributed and problematic commensal species of rats are a minority in this diverse genus. Many species of rats are island endemics and some"
"Rat Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. All species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus ""Rattus"". Other rat genera include ""Neotoma"" (pack rats), ""Bandicota"" (bandicoot rats) and ""Dipodomys"" (kangaroo rats). Rats are typically distinguished from mice by their size. Generally, when someone discovers a large muroid rodent, its common name includes the term ""rat"", while if it is smaller, its name includes the term ""mouse"". The common terms ""rat"" and ""mouse"" are not taxonomically specific, so ""rat"" is not a scientific term, otherwise all rats would belong to the genus"
"Fancy rat The fancy rat (""Rattus norvegicus domestica"") is the domesticated form of ""Rattus norvegicus""; it is a subspecies of the brown rat. The name ""fancy rat"" derives from the idea of animal ""fancy"" (the promotion of domesticated animals) or the phrase ""to fancy"" (meaning to like or appreciate). Wild-caught specimens that become docile and are bred for many generations still fall under the ""fancy"" type. Fancy rats were originally targets for blood sport in 18th- and 19th-century Europe. Later bred as pets, they now come in a wide variety of coat colors and patterns, and are bred and raised"
"rats. However, he finally allowed Ratbert to become a permanent member of the household. Ratbert chose his name through a discussion with Dogbert. Dogbert suggested names such as 'Rodney the Rodent' and 'Vernon the Vermin'. XP-39C² suggested the name 'Bill the Rat' before finally settling on 'Ratbert'. As a simple rat, and having been specially bred to be susceptible to peer pressure, Ratbert is very gullible and innocent, although optimistic. Sometimes his actions can become quite annoying, such as doing ""rat dances"". Like Dogbert, he has made inroads into business, once working as an intern, a concierge, a consultant (with"
"applied to those nouns that have only one grammatical gender, masculine or feminine, but can refer to a living creature of either sex. Most animal names are of this type. E.g.: ""el ratón"" ('mouse'), ""la rata"" ('rat'), ""la rana"" ('frog'), ""la comadreja"" ('weasel'), ""la liebre"" ('hare'), ""la hormiga"" ('ant'), ""el búho"" ('owl'), ""el escarabajo"" ('beetle'), ""el buitre"" ('vulture'), ""el delfín"" ('dolphin'), ""el cóndor"" ('condor'), ""la paloma"" ('dove'), ""la llama"" ('llama'). To specify sex, a modifying word is added, with no change of gender: ""el delfín macho"" ('the male dolphin'), ""el delfín hembra"" ('the female dolphin'), ""la comadreja macho"", ""la comadreja"
"Maned rat The maned rat or crested rat (""Lophiomys imhausi"") is a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine. The maned rat's body can grow up to long, or from head to tail. The coat consists of long, silver and black-tipped guard hairs over a dense, woolly, grey and white undercoat, with the face and limbs having short, black fur. A mane of longer, coarser black-and-white banded hairs extends from the top of the animal's head to just beyond the base of the tail. This mane is bordered by a broad, white-bordered strip of hairs"
"young are born, and remain with the mother for approximately three months (Moore 1995). The common name of this species has long been white-tailed rat or giant white-tailed rat. During the 1990s there was a push for such descriptive English common names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They compiled six indigenous names for this species: the Yidiny name ""Durrgim""; the Jaabugay name ""Durrkin""; the Gnog names ""Jikoy"", ""Koojang"" and ""Parrongkai""; and the Kuuku Ya'u name ""Thupi"". Despite this they recommended the"
"Rattie Ratz Rattie Ratz: Rescue, Resource, and Referral is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the Fancy rat (also known as the domestic rat or pet rat). It is based in Woodside, California. It was founded in 1998 and incorporated in 2001. Rattie Ratz was founded by college student Diane Weikal in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wanting a small pet for a small room, she went to the local Humane Society looking for a puppy and instead discovered the Fancy rat. She soon found herself taking in rats in need, and Rattie Ratz began. Today Rattie Ratz is one of"
"adoption of the name Mati, which is a general name for rats and mice recorded from the vicinity of the Peach River on Cape York. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what extent it will be adopted. Giant white-tailed rat The giant white-tailed rat (""Uromys caudimaculatus"") is an Australian rodent native to tropical rainforest of north Queensland, with subspecies occurring in New Guinea and the Aru Islands. It is one of the largest rodents in Australia, reaching up to 1 kg in weight, is grey-brown above, cream to white below, and has a"
"Rome, who discovered the new species, named it after Christina Thwaites, another member of the expedition. Christine's margareta rat grows to a head-and-body length of about with a tail length of . The muzzle is greyish white, the whiskers are long and the ears are large, brown and sparsely haired. The fur is long, soft and dense and the dorsal colouring is dark reddish brown. The underparts are greyish yellow, except the chin and throat, which are greyish white. The legs are brown while the fingers and toes are white. The tail is greyish brown, with the last third white."
"Dassie rat The dassie rat (""Petromus typicus"") is an African rodent found among rocky outcroppings. It is the only living member of its genus, Petromus, and family, Petromuridae. The name ""dassie"" means ""hyrax"" in Afrikaans, and the two animals are found in similar habitats. ""Petromus"" means ""rock mouse"" and dassie rats are one of many rodents sometimes called rock rats. The family and genus names are sometimes misspelled as Petromyidae and Petromys. Dassie rats are squirrel-like in appearance. Their tails are hairy, but not bushy whereas the soles of their feet are distinctly bare and have pads. Their heads are"
"""Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures"" (Most commonly when they are hanging off the side of a cliff. Occasionally other characters also refer to them as such; Fone Bone is also usually credited with coining the term ""Rat Creatures"" itself; however, he actually got the name from the possum kids). In Rat Creature tradition only royalty are allowed to have names, but in the spin-off novels ""Quest for the Spark"" two young Bones gave them the names ""Stinky"" and ""Smelly"". As it stands, the proper name of their species appears to be Hairy Men. Named after some incidents where one, or both,"
"Brown rat The brown rat (""Rattus norvegicus""), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat, Parisian rat, water rat or wharf rat, is one of the best known and most common rats. One of the largest muroids, it is a brown or grey rodent with a head and body length of up to long, and a slightly shorter tail. It weighs between . Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America,"
"Black rat The black rat (""Rattus rattus""), also known as the ship rat, roof rat or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus ""Rattus"" (rats) in the subfamily Murinae. Black rats are generalist omnivores. They are serious pests to farmers as they eat a wide range of agricultural crops. The black rat is one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, ""Systema Naturae"". It was originally described as ""Mus rattus"". Three subspecies were once recognized, but today are considered invalid. They were: A typical adult black rat is long, not including"
"as a cat, representing her benign side. Bastet, the form of the name that is most commonly adopted by Egyptologists today because of its use in later dynasties, is a modern convention offering one possible reconstruction. In early Egyptian, her name appears to have been ""bꜣstt"". In Egyptian writing, the second ""t"" marks a feminine ending, but was not usually pronounced, and the aleph ""ꜣ"" () may have moved to a position before the accented syllable, ""ꜣbst"". By the first millennium, then, ""bꜣstt"" would have been something like ""*Ubaste"" (< ""*Ubastat"") in Egyptian speech, later becoming Coptic ""Oubaste"". During later"
"Patsy Patsy is a given name often used as a diminutive of the feminine given name Patricia or sometimes the masculine name Patrick, or occasionally other names containing the syllable ""Pat"" or ""Pet"" (such as Cleopatra, Patience, or Patrice). Among Italian-Americans, it is often used as a pet name for Pasquale. In older usage, Patsy was also a nickname for Martha or Matilda, following a common nicknaming pattern of changing an M to a P (such as in Margaret → Meg/Meggy → Peg/Peggy; and Molly → Polly) and adding a feminine suffix. President George Washington called his wife Martha ""Patsy"""
"at Christmas to apologize for mistreating them). Aunt Sarah's Nip and Tuck were later renamed Si and Am. Originally, Lady's owners were called Jim Brown and Elizabeth. These were changed to highlight Lady's point of view. They were briefly referred to as ""Mister"" and ""Missis"" before settling on the names ""Jim Dear"" and ""Darling"". To maintain a dog's perspective, Darling and Jim's faces are rarely shown, similar to Mammy Two Shoes in the ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons. The rat was a somewhat comic character in early sketches, but became a great deal more frightening, due to the need to raise"
"Beauty rat snake The beauty rat snake (""Elaphe taeniura""), also called the beauty ratsnake, the beauty snake, or the cave racer, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the eastern and southeastern regions of Asia. It is a long, thin, semi-arboreal species of snake with several recognized subspecies. This constrictor feeds on rodents, and though it is favored in some locations as a natural pest control or pet, it is also considered an invasive species in other locations. Living about 15–25 years, the average length of the beauty rat snake (including the tail)"
"its identity. Another specimen, from New Jersey, was found in the academy's collection, and Harlan took it upon himself, against Pickering's wishes, to describe the new species as ""Mus palustris"", proclaiming it one of the few true rats of the United States. The specific name ""palustris"" is Latin for ""marshy"" and refers to the usual habitat of the species. In 1854, in ""The quadrupeds of North America"", Bachman redescribed it as ""Arvicola oryzivora"", considering it more closely related to the voles then placed in the genus ""Arvicola"", and also recorded it from Georgia and Florida. Three years later, Spencer Fullerton"
"The rat (sometimes referred to as a mouse) is the first of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. People born in this year are expected to possess qualities associated with rats, including creativity, intelligence, honesty, generosity, ambition, a quick temper and wastefulness. People born in a year of the rat are said to get along well with ""monkeys"" and ""dragons"", and to get along poorly with ""horses"". In Indian tradition, rats are seen as the vehicle of Ganesha, and a rat's statue is always found in a temple of Ganesh. In the northwestern Indian city of Deshnoke, the rats"
"Yoshi and learned his martial arts skills by imitating his owner. In the 1996 point-and-click adventure game """", the protagonist Curtis Craig owns a pet rat named Blob, which is seen various times in the game and is even involved in one of the many puzzles that the player must decipher. Fancy rat The fancy rat (""Rattus norvegicus domestica"") is the domesticated form of ""Rattus norvegicus""; it is a subspecies of the brown rat. The name ""fancy rat"" derives from the idea of animal ""fancy"" (the promotion of domesticated animals) or the phrase ""to fancy"" (meaning to like or appreciate)."
"rat. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what extent it will be adopted. Masked white-tailed rat The masked white-tailed rat (""Uromys hadrourus"") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia, in north-east Queensland. Descriptive English common names for this species include Masked White-tailed Rat and Thornton Peak Uromys. During the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They failed to identify"
"""Rattus"". The best-known rat species are the black rat (""Rattus rattus"") and the brown rat (""Rattus norvegicus""). The group is generally known as the Old World rats or true rats, and originated in Asia. Rats are bigger than most Old World mice, which are their relatives, but seldom weigh over in the wild. The term ""rat"" is also used in the names of other small mammals which are not true rats. Examples include the North American pack rats, a number of species loosely called kangaroo rats, and others. Rats such as the bandicoot rat (""Bandicota bengalensis"") are murine rodents related"
"Magdalena rat The Magdalena rat (""Xenomys nelsoni"") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae which is found only in a small region of western Mexico. It is the only species in the genus Xenomys. The common name comes from the village where the first specimen was collected, and the second part of the scientific name refers to the collector. The Magdalena rat is a relatively large member of its family, measuring in length, including the tail. Adults weigh an average of . The general body colour is cinnamon to yellowish brown, being paler on the head and fading"
"are called HeroRATS. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide commit to ""adopt"" rats and pay to support them. Working rat A working rat is any rat which is trained for specific tasks as a working animal. In many cases, working rats are domesticated brown rats. However, other species, notably the Gambian pouched rat, have also been trained to assist humans. Pet rats ""Rattus norvegicus"", such as fancy rats and laboratory rats, have been trained for various jobs: In the Netherlands, police have begun using brown rats to sniff out gunshot residue. Ed Kraszewski, spokesman for the task force, has said"
"Domestic rabbit A domestic (or domesticated) rabbit (""Oryctolagus""), more commonly known as a pet rabbit, a bunny, or a bunny rabbit is any of the domesticated varieties of the European rabbit species. They may be considered a pocket pet depending on their size. A male rabbit is a ""buck,"" a female is a ""doe,"" and a young rabbit is a ""kit"" or ""kitten"". Rabbits were first exploited by the Romans as sources of food and fur, and have been kept as pets in Western nations since the 19th century. Beginning in the 1980s, the idea of the domestic rabbit as"
"in Latin America and parts of Europe. In France, the coypu is known as a ""ragondin"". In Dutch, it is known as ""beverrat"" (beaver rat). In German, it is known as ""Nutria"", ""Biberratte"" (beaver rat), or ""Sumpfbiber"" (swamp beaver). In Italy, instead, the popular name is, as in North America and Asia, ""nutria"", but it is also called ""castorino"" (""little beaver""), by which its fur is known in Italy. In Swedish, the animal is known as ""sumpbäver"" (marsh/swamp beaver). In Brazil, the animal is known as ""ratão-do-banhado"", ""nútria"", or ""caxingui"" (the last from the Tupi language). The coypu was first"
"Ratha and Thistle-chaser Ratha and Thistle-Chaser is a young adult novel, third in the series ""The Books of the Named"" by Clare Bell. The series follows a group of sentient, prehistoric large cats called the Named, led by the female cat, Ratha. It also deals with their struggles against the group of non-sentient cats, the Unnamed. On October 18, 2007, it was reprinted by the company Penguin Group. Ratha, who gave birth to five cubs in the first book, Ratha's Creature, had a non-sentient cub who she named Thistle-chaser with her UnNamed mate, Bonechewer. Ratha, in a fit of anger"
"the name of the Rat Man's girlfriend, Gisela, from an anagram, ""Glejisamen"", which the patient had invented. Actually, the notes show Freud had learned her name first, and then used it to deduce the meaning of the anagram, although in the actual case-study Freud merely states that ""when he told it to me, I could not help noticing that the word was in fact an anagram of the name of his lady"". Critics have also objected to Freud's downplaying of the role of the Rat Man's mother, and for several deviations on his part from what would later become standard"
"quickly to sexual maturity and are easy to keep and to breed in captivity. When modern biologists refer to ""rats"", they almost always mean ""Rattus norvegicus"". The brown rat is kept as a pet in many parts of the world. Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are just a few of the countries that have formed fancy rat associations similar in nature to the American Kennel Club, establishing standards, orchestrating events, and promoting responsible pet ownership. The many different types of domesticated brown rats include variations in coat patterns, as well as the style of the coat, such"
"making it by at least this particular definition the most successful mammal on the planet alongside humans. With rare exceptions, the brown rat lives wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas. Selective breeding of ""Rattus norvegicus"" has produced pet rats, as well as the laboratory rat - the white rats used as model organisms in biological research. Originally called the ""Hanover rat"" by people wishing to link problems in 18th century England with the House of Hanover, it is not known for certain why the brown rat is named ""Rattus norvegicus"" (Norwegian rat), as it did not originate from Norway."
"a part of daily life—as food, clothing, a companion, and as a source of artistic inspiration. Male rabbits are called ""bucks""; females are called ""does"". An older term for an adult rabbit is ""coney"", while ""rabbit"" once referred only to the young animals. Another term for a young rabbit is ""bunny"", though this term is often applied informally (especially by children) to rabbits generally, especially domestic ones. More recently, the term ""kit"" or ""kitten"" has been used to refer to a young rabbit. A group of rabbits is known as a ""colony"" or ""nest"" (or, occasionally, a ""warren"", though this"