If you quote an authority source you are obligated to cite it. It is not other’s job to backwards full-text-search a quote to determine who your were referencing. Pretty common academia stuff, but as you said you’re an ecologist and for sure know that, so you must have omitted it purposefully
I didn’t. Intelligent talking people rats are still rats, the rats in the movie behave entirely like normal biological rats, just they can “talk” and stuff too
They aren’t icky simply because they’re rats, they’re ugly because they piss and shit everywhere.
Bigotry and such is unjustified because the people it’s targeted at aren’t the bigoted things people assume about them. They’re normal, same as any of us.
Rats are unsanitary. Even pets shouldn’t be in a food prep area. I’m not sorry for any rat furies out there.