Aw, who wouldn't want to snuggle with those adorable rats? Well, until they chew your face off and give you 3 diseases.
Interestingly enough, these rats (named pouched rats for their hamster-like cheeks) are thought to be reponsible for outbreaks of Monkeypox in the states. That's kind of ironic. Gambian rats have also been trained to sniff out landmines, and people are trying to train them to detect tuberculosis. Rats... helping STOP the spread of disease? Weird.