For as long as they have been in existence humans have had tried many ways to get rid of them, so rats have found ways to adapt to our ways of killing them. Oh Rats has a whole page dedicated to how rats can survive using their abilities. You would never expect a rat in the water but actually they are better in water than people are. They can paddle for around half a mile, stay under water for 3 minutes, and most impressively they can tread water for a grand total of 3 whole days.[pg 14 Mordan] “Rats are not like us. Their senses of hearing, smell and touch are keener than ours.”[shalhoup] With humans being the messy race we are rats have also adapted by finding and eating our trash. For example there is a video of a rat carrying a whole piece of pizza to a hole in the building where he probably enjoyed the germ infected