Desert rat

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Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural may refer to:

• The Desert Rats, nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division
• The Desert Rats, 1953 war film starring Richard Burton
• Desert rat, old name for the gerbil
• Desert rat, colloquial name for a resident of a desert area, esp. in the American Desert Southwest area
• Desert Rat-kangaroo, extinct Australian marsupial
• Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA

[edit] See also

• Desert Rat Scrap Book, a defunct humor magazine about the Desert Southwest (see website)
• 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
• Rats of Tobruk, nickname for Allied soldiers garrisoned in the Libyan port of Tobruk in World War II.