Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Splinter, by his students often called Master Splinter, is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media. In both the original comics and the live-action movies, Splinter is the pet rat of a ninja named Hamato Yoshi in Japan. Intelligent for his species, Splinter is able to learn ninjutsu art by mimicking his master's movements while he practiced. Yoshi becomes embroiled in a dispute with a fellow ninja by the name of Oroku Nagi, and is eventually murdered by Nagi's brother, Oroku Saki, who is seeking revenge for his
Brown rat as Hairless or Rex, and more recently developed variations in body size and structure, including dwarf and tailless fancy rats. A working rat is a rat trained for specific tasks as a working animal. In many cases, working rats are domesticated brown rats. However, other species, notably the Gambian pouched rat, have been trained to assist humans. Jensen, J.-K. & Magnussen, E. 2015. Occurrence of fleas (Siphonaptera) and lice (Phthiraptera) on Brown rats ("Rattus norvegicus") on the Faroes Islands. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 62, 154-159. Overviews "Rattus norvegicus" genome and use as model animal Brown rat The brown rat ("Rattus