Desert rat
Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural may refer to:
- The Desert Rats, nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division, later applied to the British Eighth Army of which the division was a part.
- The Desert Rats, 1953 war film starring Richard Burton
- A common name for various groups of rodents:
- Gerbils (Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia
- Kangaroo rats (Dipodomys) from North America
- Natal Multimammate Mouse (Mastomys natalensis) from Africa
- Desert rat, colloquial name for a resident of a desert area, esp. in Southwestern United States deserts
- Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA
- Desert Rat Scrap Book, a quarterly humor publication (1945–1967) based in California focusing on the American Southwest region, especially prospectors and other desert rats
- Desert Rats, a book by Charles Lewis Camp
See also
- Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps, a real time strategy game based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II (see website)
- Desert Woodrat, a small species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America.
- The Rat Patrol, an American TV program (1966–1968) loosely based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II
- The Rats of Tobruk, nickname for Allied soldiers holding the Libyan port of Tobruk while under siege in World War II.
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