See How Easily a Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet | National Geographic

A rat's ribs are hinged at the spine, enabling it to easily squeeze through the tightest spaces—like the pipes draining your toilet. And rats are great swimmers too; they can hold their breath for up to three minutes. See how quickly a rat can go from the city streets to your bathroom.

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See How Easily a Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet | National Geographic

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[alexdejesus]

Taking a shit while watching this and looked back into the toilet and was scared when I saw my shit in there, thought it was a rat lmfao. Never watching this again lmfao

[manda]

Me: *doesnt check toilet before sitting on it*
Rat: *gets violently shat on*

[fcukugimmeausername]

Imagine swimming through tight, claustrophobic passages, underwater, only to finally make it to the surface and realise you've been swimming in a toilet.

[Mattypantaloons]

This happened in a third floor apartment I was living in around 2005. It started with seeing turds and chewed plant leaves in my bathroom. Then one night on my way into the kitchen, walking past the bathroom I saw a large rat jump from the side of the bathtub into the toilet bowl and then disappear. I couldn't believe what I'd just witnessed. I set up a rat trap with peanut butter and kept the bathroom door closed. Within about a week, I opened that door to a large puddle of blood and a dead 12" long rat on the bathroom floor. I learned to take super fast deuces in the few months I was there before moving to a new place.

[WolfeSpeider]

Watching this on the toilet is not a great experience.

[c_urtis]

Imagine pooping and a rat comes up crawling to you. Goosebumps.

[TimidSylveon]

Anyone who’s had a pet rat knows how smart they are. Not surprised they can figure something like this out.

[buky]

therefore mice should wash their hands before making Ratatouille

[dancingrabbit]

I could have lived my whole life not knowing this.

[tog]

The scene with the rats swimming is adorable

[NSMurley]

The fact that rats can freak people out is creepy yes, but I AM impressed at how they're able to swim the way they do, as well as how they can fit through confined spaces. I never knew that their ribs were able to collapse due to them being being hinged to their spines, and this is just another interesting fact about rats in this world.

[WadeWilson-]

I've put a rat trap inside the toilet.
My dad got castrated. It snapped his balls and now I will never have a brother.

[lmaolpha_male]

Now I can never go to the toilet without being paranoid. Thanks a lot NatGeo

[BrendelC]

XD i died when the rats started swimming

[thegoldeneagleeye]

After all these years i finally know what the inside of a toilet looks like :D

[Kuno]

This is amazing I never knew they could swim for that long!

[ihavenoname]

I've seen it happen. I was renting out a basement with a small toilet attached to it. I wasn't living there, just using the place as storage space. I used to put a brick on top the lid because I was afraid sth like that could happen and guess what? The rat ate through the plastic toilet lid!

[johndough]

Rats swimming is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen

[persephone]

"They can tread water for..."
_An hour or so?_
"... Three days straight."
😳

[DanielC-]

Watching the rats swim was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen