10. Memory and Navigation Skills
These rats have remarkable spatial memory and navigation skills, which helps them to keep thorough mental maps of their territory spanning many square kilometers. Even in cases of great distances separating feeding grounds, resting sites, and water sources, they recall and often use particular paths between them. This cognitive capacity also covers remembering seasonal variations in resource availability and modifying movement patterns in response. They can also preserve these memories for long times and identify and recall unique human faces.
