What is a wolf rat? How different is it from a reg rat?

Question

I'd heard of wolf rats and never have seen one (even in books) could someone tell me the difference from a reg rat and what web site I can go to, to see one?

Answer 1

it howls like a wolf and its like 5 x the size of a regular one

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Answer 2

There is a predatory mouse called the grasshopper mouse, which lives largely on grasshoppers, spiders, scorpions, and other smallish arthropods.  These mice, "the wolves of the mouse world," look like regular mice but act like predators, sneaking up on prey, working in pairs, and howling.  http://www.nps.gov/tont/naturescience/so...

I have not learned of any rat that does this though sometimes wild rats will eat insects; they will eat whatever they can get.  Marsupial "rats and mice" which look much like rats and mice, do eat insects, but they are not true rodents.  

I've found a "Black Wolf Rattery" which is a fancy rat breeder of high-class Norway rats.  I have found a fictional "wolf rat" that is somehow formed by uniting a bunch of ship rats (rattus rattus).   And I've seen a cartoon picture of a fierce, blood-shot rodent with wolf-like teeth.  At Halloween time I often see decorative rats that look like giant rats but with wolf-like teeth; I expect there are some people that don't even know the difference between a rat's chisel-like teeth and a classic carnivore's pointy fangs.

That's all I found that could relate to "wolf rat."