#11- Rats!

From charismatic megafauna, like dragons, we descend to the small and distinctly uncharismatic.

 Sources 

  

Anonymous, A strange and true relation of the prodigious multitude of mice. London, 1670.

Edward Topsell, A Historie of Foure Footed Beasts. London, 1658 (first edition was 1607).

 Alexandre Yersin, "La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong" [The Bubonic Plague in Hong Kong]. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (in French). 1894,  8: 662–667.