Giant black rats are a fictional species of ferocious radiation spawned rodents featured in James Herbert's horror novels The Rats which was first published in 1974, Lair in 1979, Domain in 1985 and the graphic novel The City in 1993 illustrated by Ian Miller. They also made an appearance in the 1982 film adaptation of his first novel; Deadly Eyes. The species is portrayed in both the novels and the film as being extremely aggressive and adaptable, having developed a powerful enmity toward mankind. FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... Radiation in physics is the process of emitting energy in the form of waves or particles. ... Suborders Sciuromorpha Castorimorpha Myomorpha Anomaluromorpha Hystricomorpha Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents. ... James Herbert (born 8 April 1943, London) is a best selling English horror writer known for his simple yet compelling sensationalist novels, which are notable for their use of horrific set pieces. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trade paperback of Will Eisners A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deadly Eyes is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Robert Clouse, based on the first book of the Rats Quadrilogy by James Herbert. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Aggression is defined as The act of initiating hostilities or invasion. ... ADAPT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... An enemy or foe is a relativist term for an entity that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. ... Look up Mankind in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

According to Herbert himself, the inspiration for the rats came from a combination of memories from his childhood and a scene from Universal Pictures adaptation of Dracula in which a character recounts how he dreamt of a horde of rats bowing to Dracula himself. Born in the East End of London shortly after The Blitz, the ruined and neglected streets of Herbert's infancy were overrun with large rats which haunted his trips to the cellar and sometimes fought with the family cat. The monster rats featured in his novels are not just homages to his past, but also symbols of urban decay allowed to spread by an incompetent government and economic system more focused on covering its mistakes than dealing with them. The rats radiation based genesis and subsequent post nuclear war domination can also be seen as allegories to the cold war. Childhood (song) Childhood is a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between infancy and adulthood. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Dracula is a 1931 horror film produced by Universal Pictures Co. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of its primary character, the vampire Count Dracula. ... The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England. ... Heinkel He 111 German bomber over the Surrey Docks, Southwark, London (German propaganda photomontage) The Blitz was the sustained bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941. ... Trinomial name Felis silvestris catus (Linnaeus, 1758) The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) is a small carnivorous mammal. ... Urban decay and renewal in Cincinnati Urban decay is the popular term for both the physical and social degeneration of cities and large towns. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

Castes

The hunter rats stalking their prey.

The mother rat, hideous ruler of the mutant hordes.

Rat humanoids infesting the ruins of a post apocalyptic London.

Though seemingly chaotic in their frenzied attacks, the giant black rats do possess a strict hierarchy comparable to that of hive based insects. Though it hasn't been explicitly stated by James Herbert himself, it is possible the inspiration of the rats' eusocial nature is derived from the naked mole rat. Image File history File links Hunter_Rats. ... Image File history File links Hunter_Rats. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (880x912, 198 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giant Black Rat ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (880x912, 198 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giant Black Rat ... Image File history File links Rat_Humanoids. ... Image File history File links Rat_Humanoids. ... A hierarchy (in Greek: , it is derived from -hieros, sacred, and -arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things or people, where each element of the system (except for the top element) is subordinate to a single other element. ... Hive may refer to: Hives, non-medical popular language name for Urticaria, a common form of allergic reaction Beehive (beekeeping) a colony of bees or the shelter built for or by the bees Computer a place to store system or local variables, such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is a system variables hive... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... Eusociality is the phenomenon of reproductive specialisation found in some species of animal, whereby a specialised caste carries out reproduction in a colony of non-reproductive animals. ... Binomial name Heterocephalus glaber Rüppell, 1842 The Naked Mole Rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the Sand Puppy, or desert mole rat, is a very unusual burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa, predominately South Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. ...

• Hunters;

Superficially, they resemble enlarged black rats, measuring over 3 feet in length including the tail, along with powerfully hunched hind quarters and proportionately larger brains. The most notable difference however is in the animals dietary habits which unlike that of the ordinary black rat, is primarily carnivorous. The hunter caste is highly aggressive, finding enough confidence in sufficient numbers to attack animals many times their own size, devouring them alive whilst oblivious to any casualties they themselves may suffer in the process. When the mutants first appeared, the survivors of rat bites, unless immediately treated invariably died within 24 hours due to an agonizing disease described as a hideous distortion of Leptospirosis. Though the rats later lost this deadly ability, their numbers and ferocity still marked them as a genuinely serious threat. Binomial name Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Black Rat (Rattus rattus, also known as the Asian Black Rat, Ship Rat, Roof Rat or House Rat) is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus (Old World rodents) and the subfamily murinae (Murine rodents). ... A sketch of the human brain by artist Priyan Weerappuli, imposed upon his sketch of the profile of Michaelangelos David In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for in the head), is the control center of the central nervous system. ... This article deals with meat-eating animals. ... Confidence is trust or faith that a person or thing is capable. ... Casualties of war. ... It has been suggested that Refractory disease be merged into this article or section. ... A threat is a declaration of intention to inflict punishment or harm on another. ...

• Guards;

Similar to the hunters, only larger, much rarer and seemingly immune to the ultrasonic lures which defeated the species in their first outbreak. They are viciously protective and will not hesitate to maim or kill even members of their own species that venture too closely to their deformed ruler. Lure can refer to: fishing lure Lure, a commune of the Haute-Saône département, in France This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In engineering mechanics, deformation is a change in shape due to an applied force. ...

• Mother rats;

The ruling caste of the mutant rodents, they are huge, hairless creatures, crippled by their own grotesque obesity. The most notable feature of a mother rat is the presence of a second head which begins as a cancerous growth in infancy. Mother rats are extremely secretive and live in specially constructed lairs of straw and bones where the complete darkness saps them of pigmentation and eyesight. They live in a form of symbiosis with their smaller, more brutish cousins; the mother rats using their superior intelligence to guide their servants in their attacks, whilst the hunters in turn provide food for their totally helpless masters. Though no reason is given, mother rats seem to feed exclusively on human brains. See also: Handicap (competition) Handicapped is an adjective used to refer to a person or animal who is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs. ... For other uses, see Cancer (disambiguation). ... Bales of straw bundles of rice straw Pile of straw bales, sheltered under a tarpaulin Straw is an agricultural byproduct, the dry stalk of a cereal plant, after the nutrient grain or seed has been removed. ... For animal and plant pigments, see Pigment, biology. ... Visual perception is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it as the perception known as sight or naked eye vision. ... Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ...

• Humanoids;

This species appeared later on in the series following a devastating nuclear attack on all major cities in Britain, allowing the giant rats to thrive as they did in their radiation soaked homeland. As their name suggests, they are of a humanoid form, yet with conspicuously rat-like features like tails, claws and prominent incisors. It is unclear whether or not they are an advanced mutation caused by the radiation or in fact true human-rat hybrids seeing as later on in the series it is shown that both humans and giant rats are giving birth to them. Unlike the other castes, they do not seem to serve a specific function. In fact, were it not for the protection of the mother rat, the first generation of humanoids would have been slaughtered by the hunters who despised and feared them for their human appearance. They are hostile and feral, shown by the series conclusion to be little more than bandits, looting and murdering all those who encroach upon their turfs. Nuclear war, or atomic war, is war in which nuclear weapons are used. ... Radiation in physics is the process of emitting energy in the form of waves or particles. ... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ... Incisors are the first kind of tooth in heterodont mammals. ... // In biology, hybrid has two meanings. ... Look up Function in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... A feral horse (an American mustang) in Wyoming A feral animal or plant is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wild state. ... Butch Cassidy, a famous outlaw An outlaw, a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, is most familiar to contemporary readers as a stock character in Western movies. ... Looting (which derives via the Hindi lut from Sanskrit lunt, to rob), sacking, or plundering is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe or riot, such as during war [1], natural disaster [2], rioting [3], or terrorist attack...

History

The Rats

Origins

The rats originated on an unnamed island near New Guinea which had been used as a nuclear testing site during the cold war. Though it is never established exactly what species they were before the tests took place, it is clear that rather than perish from the massive amounts of radiation bombarding the island, they thrived off it. The radioactivity accelerated their evolution, greatly enhancing their size and intelligence. It wasn't long before rumours of the mutants' existence reached the ears of an old London Zoologist named William Bartlett Schiller. A nuclear test explosion is an experiment involving the detonation of a nuclear weapon. ... Radiation in physics is the process of emitting energy in the form of waves or particles. ... A bombard is a type of medieval cannon or mortar, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. ... Radioactivity may mean: Look up radioactivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about evolution in biology. ... You may be looking for one of the following: Dimensions: length, width, height Clothing measurements such as shoe size or dress size Geometry Measurement Gelatinous or glutinous substance made from glue, wax, clay or similar Or the following command-line Unix tool: Size (Unix) This is a disambiguation page: a... Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... For an alternative meaning, see ear (botany). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...

The Beginning

Professor Schiller along with his wife, travelled to the island where the alleged sightings of mutant rodents originated from. After staying there for several years, the Schillers left for England, taking with them an illegally smuggled living specimen. The couple began to live as recluses by a disused canal, keeping the creature in their cellar, feeding and studying it. At one point in his experiments, Schiller mated it to an ordinary black rat, resulting in the creation of the first hunters. Eventually though, Schiller died due to a mysterious tropical disease (possibly from a rat bite), thus leaving his wife to continue his work. The ordeal of containing the quickly growing numbers of shrieking mutants grew too much for the old woman's sanity, leading to her incarceration at a mental institution. Meanwhile, the trapped rats soon grew numerous enough to overcome their prison, starving and aggressive enough to attack the nearest living thing, an unfortunate vagrant who gave the mutants their first taste of human blood. Marriage is a relationship that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA. Smuggling is illegal transport, in particular across a border. ... In biology, specimen is an individual animal or a plant or a microorganism that is used as a representative to study the properties of the whole population of that species. ... Couple, as a noun, is close in meaning to pair, can refer to: two of any similar items; the publicly social bond between two people (most often heterosexual, but common use has also increasingly included homosexuals) in a sexual relationship: husband and wife; girlfriend and boyfriend; two girlfriends (ed. ... A recluse is someone in isolation who hides away from the attention of the public, a person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world[citation needed]. The word is from the Latin recludere, which means shut up or sequester.[citation needed] A person may become a recluse for... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Channel (geography). ... A cellar is a storage room built below ground level (usually under a house), primarily for the storage of food and drink (especially wine) for use throughout the year. ... Binomial name Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Black Rat (Rattus rattus, also known as the Asian Black Rat, Ship Rat, Roof Rat or House Rat) is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus (Old World rodents) and the subfamily murinae (Murine rodents). ... A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... Vagrancy is a crime in some European countries, but most of these laws have been abandoned. ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ...

London Outbreak

After escaping their captivity, the mutant rats with their greater size and intellect inevitably dominated the native vermin, eradicating the brown rats and subjugating the ordinary black rats, adding to their already considerable numbers. The filthy and neglected slums of East London proved to be an ideal environment for the rats to thrive in. At first the rats attacked sporadically, picking off straying children and vagrants. After learning that humans were indeed easy prey, they became bolder in their onslaughts, assaulting a school and a tube station in a single day later known as "Black Monday". Survivors who were bitten would later die from an agonising disease carried in the rats' saliva. No longer able to keep the disease carried by the rats a secret, the government's belated response was to create a pathogen to infect the rats and ultimately wipe them out. Using infected puppies as bait, the plan seemed to work for a while, resulting in a mass exodus of mutant rats to the surface to die. However, the surviving strain quickly developed an immunity to the virus and made their existence known by attacking a cinema and the London Zoo. Strangely enough though, it seemed that the virus had managed to eliminate the disease carried by the rats. After a mass evacuation of Londons inhabitants, the rats were finally defeated when a plan was formulated to lure the rats out of their lairs with ultrasonic sound beams and gas them to death. At the same time, the late professor Schiller's old home was identified as the rats main lair. It was ultimately infiltrated and the mother rat residing there was killed. The term captivity is used to refer to the following meanings: the state of being confined to a space from which it is hard or impossible to escape; see imprisonment. ... The bane of Australian farmers - the wild rabbit Mouse Vermin is a pejorative word given to animals which are considered by users of the word to be pests or nuisances, most associated with the carrying of disease. ... Binomial name Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) The brown rat, common rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat or wharf rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the best-known and common rats, and also one of the largest. ... A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. ... It has been suggested that Pharaoh of the Exodus be merged into this article or section. ... In a medical sense, immunity is a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion. ... Groups I: dsDNA viruses II: ssDNA viruses III: dsRNA viruses IV: (+)ssRNA viruses V: (-)ssRNA viruses VI: ssRNA-RT viruses VII: dsDNA-RT viruses A virus is a microscopic particle that can infect the cells of a biological organism. ... The giant London Zoo aviary London Zoo was the worlds first scientific zoo. ... Look up evacuation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A gas is one of the four major phases of matter (after solid and liquid, and followed by plasma, that subsequently appear as a solid material is subjected to increasingly higher temperatures. ...

However, a single rat survivor, confined to a grocery store cellar and unable to follow the ultrasonic lures gave birth to a new litter, including a new mother rat.

Lair

Escape

The new rats matured fast, sustaining themselves on the contents of the cellar. When the owners returned and unwittingly released the rats, they were devoured. Knowing that they were too few in number to wage another war, the new mother rat led its horde out of the city, using their now aged mother and stragglers as sustenance for the journey. Travelling through railway tunnels, the mutants soon came across the outskirts of Epping Forest. There, they would relocate and adapt, remaining unseen for four years. Life in the forest changed the rats, for now they shunned their arboreal black rat heritage in favour of being burrowers to better hide from the human enemy. Look up war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. ... This article is about the biological organisms known as trees. ...

The Siege of Epping Forest

As their numbers grew, the rats soon proved themselves to be ecological menaces of the worst kind. They devoured all animals within their claimed territory and it wasn't long before their ancestral craving for human meat proved too strong to ignore. Not content to simply dig up bodies from graveyards, they began killing the forest's human occupants, as with the first outbreak initially going for isolated individuals before attacking en masse a mobile home site. Realising that the rats were too intelligent to be fooled by ultrasonic lures a second time, the government decided to exterminate the rats by trapping them in their burrows and gassing them with cyanide. Though this action resulted in the deaths of thousands of rats, it was proven to be futile seeing as attacks on the local fauna continued as before. Plus, searches for the body of the mother rat proved fruitless. It seemed that the rats killed underground were merely reserves, the real force being located somewhere else. The creatures had in fact taken refuge within the cellar of an abandoned estate where the mother rat had begun to spawn more members of her own kind. Though they had so far avoided the retribution of their human adversaries, their numbers had been severely depleted and an unrest began to culminate among the hunter caste. Tiring of the subservience which almost drove them to extinction, the hunters attacked the helpless mother rats. The brute strength of the guard caste proved ineffective against the hordes of hunters and were killed along with their masters. At this point however, the lair had been discovered and in a brutal display of firepower, it was razed to the ground by helicopters. Though many rats trying to escape were killed by flamethrowers, four managed to escape. After days of hiding and depriving themselves of food, the rats left the forest which had once been their home and made their way toward the city where for the next several years, they would remain undetected. A modern double-wide manufactured home. ... The cyanide ion, CN−. From the top: 1. ... Fauna is a collective term for animal life of any particular region or time. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ... German troops use a flamethrower on the Eastern Front during the Second World War A flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to throw flames or, more correctly, project an ignited stream of liquid. ...

Domain

The Nuclear Holocaust

For years, the mutants took refuge in London's subway, venturing out to the surface only at night to scavenge on the waste of mankind. After two defeats that nearly ended in their extinction, the rats grew even more cunning and never took enough food to arouse suspicion. This passive life of foraging ended in the span of a day when the balance of power was abrubtly tilted to their favour. Due to disputes in the Middle East over oil and a Soviet invasion of Iran, the cold war had suddenly erupted into a full scale conflict. With little warning given, London and all other major cities in Britain were reduced to rubble after a nuclear warhead strike. Some of the populace managed to escape in the subway, only to be greeted by the rats who now sensed that their great enemy had been severely weakened. Not even the privileged few who possessed bomb shelters were able to hold out for long seeing as the rats soon found out how to enter them via the water wells, ironically turning the structures meant to offer protection into mass tombs. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Dodo, shown here in illustration, is an often-cited[1] example of extinction. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Natural olive oil Synthetic motor oil Oil, in a general sense, is a chemical compound that is not miscible with water, and is in a liquid state at ambient temperatures. ... Soviet redirects here. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... A bunker is a defensive warfare fortification to protect oneself. ... Cable tool water well drilling rig in Kimball, West Virginia. ... A tomb is a small building (or vault) for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. ...

The Next Mutation

Shortly after the attack, something began to change in the mother rat's mutant physiology. It began experiencing a new pain as its bloated body began to gestate a new breed of tainted offspring. Upon finally giving birth, the hunter caste seemed on the verge of dissent, for the young creatures of the new generation bore striking similarities to human children. The authority of the mother rat and the aggression of the guards prevented the hunters from killing the humanoids. However, a sudden outbreak of pneumonic plague struck the rats, severely weakening them and depleting their numbers. Left vulnerable, the mother rat and her young were killed in an attack by human survivors, though the rats were far from beaten. All major cities in Britain now lay in ruins, reaking with the same radiation that first birthed the rats and humanity was now fragmented and beaten. The rats now had nothing to oppose them in the conquest of their new domain. Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside a female viviparous animal. ... Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to an idea (eg. ... Plague redirects here. ...

The City

The New Order

After an undetermined amount of time after the war, the degredation of humanity had now been completed with the advancement of the rats. It seemed that the pneumonic plague had been adapted to, as had all the diseases and chemical weapons used against the rodent hordes in the past. The rats had now evolved further, entering a near semi-sentient state, though this had in no way diminished their bloodlust. Now the rats exploited humans other than for food, some rats even going as far as using the beaten and broken people as beasts of burden. Nesting in what was once St. Paul's Cathedral, the new mother rat had given birth to more humanoids, this time with nothing to hinder their survival. Though more intelligent than their ancestors; being capable of tool use and assimilating language, the humanoids proved to be no less malicious. They roamed the ruined city in bands, hunting and preying on defenceless vagrants, stripping them of their possessions whilst at the same time avoiding contact with their more bestial brethren. Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness -- the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. ... A working animal is a semi-domesticated animal that is kept by humans and often trained to perform various tasks, regardless whether they are also used for consumption of meat and milk or for other products (such as leather). ... St Pauls Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London in London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. ...

The Traveller

The rats' rule over London's skeleton had remained completely unopposed until the arrival of an unusual stranger. Covered in head to toe with armour and accompanied by a pair of robotic dogs, the stranger known only as The Traveller was unlike the humans the rats had now grown accustomed to. He was no battered and demoralised wreck, he openly defied the rats, plowing through their countless hordes with a vast array of weaponry. Though the rats succeeded in killing his canine companions, they were unable to stop his advance toward the cathedral and burning the occupants inside, including the mother rat itself. The vengeful rat army pursued the traveller to the London Bridge where they were unaware that a trap had been set. Once the traveller reached the other side, the bridge was detonated, the rats still on it perishing. For other uses, see Armour (disambiguation). ... ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog Canis lupus is a type of canine, a mammal in the order Carnivora. ... The Traveller is a fictional character from the graphic novel The City by James Herbert and Ian Miller, the concluding chapter in his popular Rats Quadrilogy. ... A canine may refer to: a canine tooth. ... For other uses, see London Bridge (disambiguation). ... Detonation is a process of supersonic combustion that involves a shock wave and a reaction zone behind it. ...

The future of humanity and the rats remains to this day uncertain.

Movie Portrayal

The species was given its first and so far only screen appearance in the Canadian 1982 film Deadly Eyes. Though their characteristic size and lust for human flesh in the first novel was kept for the obvious purposes of a horror film, their origins had been completely changed. No more were they radiation spawned vermin imported to London from the tropics, but Toronto based sewer rats that grew in size after ingesting grain laced with steroids. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deadly Eyes is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Robert Clouse, based on the first book of the Rats Quadrilogy by James Herbert. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Image of a sewer pipe // Function Sewers transport wastewater from buildings to treatment facilities. ... The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. ... Steroid skeleton of lanosterol. ...

The social order and caste system shown by the rats in the novels is completely overlooked in the film.

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References

• Herbert, James The Rats 1974 ISBN 0-450-02127-0
• Herbert, James Lair 1979 ISBN 0-450-04546-3
• Herbert, James Domain 1984 ISBN 0-450-05822-0
• Herbert, James The City 1993 ISBN 0-330-32471-3
• Crabell, Craig James Herbert: Devil in the dark 2003 ISBN 1-84358-059-4

See also

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External links

• The James Herbert web site
• The Ian Miller web site
• Deadly eyes at the Internet Movie Database