Rat Staring Contest

By request, here s an updated edit of the Rat Staring Contest without the background music, so every squeak can be heard This video was the number one video on G4 s Attack of The Show, was shown on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (14th April 2009) and also Animal Planet s Untamed and Uncut The cage in the video is a hamster cage and is much, much too small for even a single rat. They don t live in it and was used only for introducing these two pairs in a confined space. They live in a huuuge cage with many hammocks, ropes and soft beds, so no worries guys; ) Rats perform this bizarre behaviour when they feel their dominance is being threatened, but nowhere else have I ever heard of rats standing up like this for over five minutes straight at a time Normally it should be for just a couple of seconds. I believe these two brothers learned that by looking busy with each other like this, the older rats wouldn t challenge them.