In Europe a baby rat is called a kitten, in North America they are called pups. However pup is the scientific classification of the baby rat.
AnswerA young rat is called a kitten, nestling, pinkie, or pupA baby rat is called a pup.
because the person who discoved rats named them rats
There's no authoritative history for the origin of the word 'rat'; it's one of the Indo-European (or PIE: Proto-Indo-European) words, with similar versions in several languages.
One suggestion:
I think it came from this:
One of the definitions of 'rat': A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
That word was used years and years and years ago 1700's (?) for a mass of hair, I'm guessing a rat looked like that to people when it was running past, just a mass of hair.
Another suggestion:
Or perhaps it was the other way around: the rat in the sense of hair-enhancement took its name from the hairy rat.
a female rat is called a doe and a male is a buck
A baby rat is called a 'pup'.
A baby rat's parents are typically referred to as the mother rat and the father rat.
Rats are often said to scurry.
No, a baby rat is typically called a pup, kitten, or sometimes a pinky if it is newborn and hairless.
An adult rat is called a rat.
maybe because they are also called the "grass cutting rat"
If it is a male rat then it become sterile.A castrated rat is a sterile rat.
A male rat is called a buck.
A small rat is called a pup
it is called a flying rat
giant rat
a female rat is called a doe and a male is a buck
Ummm . . . yes, the baby rat is a rat, but maybe you mean what are they called . . . A baby rat is called a puppy or kitten, a female rat is called a doe, and a male rat is called a buck.
The robe of the fire rat. That's all its called
A baby rat is called a puppy or kitten, a female rat is called a doe, and a male rat is called a buck.
A baby rat is called a 'pup'.