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Renate Rietveld IBCLC <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:35:00 +0200
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Hi Fio!

I enjoyed your post very much being a pet rat owner myself.
Pet rats have an average life expectancy of only two years, so that would
make your calculations even more impressive!

Thanks for posting,

Renate Rietveld, IBCLC
Rijswijk, The Netherlands

At 09:50 3-7-01 -0400, you wrote:
>I was at a petshop the other day
>Anyhow, I was speculating the age (relative) of the older rat nursling.
>I had gerbils and hamsters at one point in my life and was told their
>"really old age" life expectancy is about 3 years.  I don't know if the
>same is to be said of rats, but I was assuming it was around that.  Just
>to make things easy to calculate, I imagined 3 years for a rat was like
>90 human years.  Divide by 3, and you get 30 rat years per human year of
>life.  OK, so divide by the number of months in a year...and you get an
>idea that this older rat-ling was "still nursing" around about 2.5 years
>of age!  Funny that, eh?
>
>Maybe my calculations are off...if rats live to a ripe old age of 5
>years this would screw things up a bit...but it would still mean that
>rat, at the age of 4 weeks, was nursing quite a bit older than most
>people think is "ok" for humans to do nowadays!
>


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