Miss Bandicota Bengalensis was a little Indian mole rat who grew up in a maze of burrows with her mother, seven sisters and ten brothers. They were terrific pests, the nineteen of them, always out on a rampage.

Most of the Bengalensis family went out to nearby farms to forage for food.

“Whatever else can you do?” her mother had asked. Miss Bandicota Bengalensis had smiled simply and said, “I can burrow.”

But after she narrowly escaped a farmer’s rat trap, Miss Bandicota Bengalensis decided never to attack a farm.