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Input (English): Context: A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or protection, as opposed to working animals, sport animals, livestock, and laboratory animals, which are kept primarily for performance, agricultural value, or research. The most popular pets are noted for their attractive appearances and their loyal or playful personalities., Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber, and labor. The term is often used to refer solely to those raised for food, and sometimes only farmed ruminants, such as cattle and goats. In recent years, some organizations have also raised livestock to promote the survival of rare breeds. The breeding, maintenance, and slaughter of these animals, known as animal husbandry, is a component of modern agriculture that has been practiced in many cultures since humanity's transition to farming from hunter-gatherer lifestyles., The house mouse ("Mus musculus") is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail. It is one of the most numerous species of the genus "Mus". Although a wild animal, the house mouse mainly lives in association with humans., The black rat ("Rattus rattus"), also known as the ship rat, roof rat, house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus "Rattus" (rats) in the subfamily Murinae. The species originated in tropical Asia and spread through the Near East in Roman times before reaching Europe by the 1st century and spreading with Europeans across the world. , Mammals are any vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin "mamma" "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones and mammary glands. The sister group of mammals may be the extinct "Haldanodon." The mammals represent the only living Synapsida, which together with the Sauropsida form the Amniota clade. The mammals consist of the Yinotheria including monotrema and the Theriiformes including the theria., A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks. They may be close members of the family, such as guide dogs or other assistance dogs, or they may be animals trained to provide tractive force, such as draft horses or logging elephants. The latter types of animals are called draft animals (draught animals) or beasts of burden. Most working animals are either service animals or draft animals. They may also be used for milking or herding, jobs that require human training to encourage the animal to cooperate. Some, at the end of their working lives, may also be used for meat or other products such as leather., Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus "Rattus", the most important of which to humans are the black rat, "Rattus rattus", and the brown rat, "Rattus norvegicus". Many members of other rodent genera and families are also referred to as rats, and share many characteristics with true rats., A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism. The term typically refers to the zone in which the organism lives and where it can find food, shelter, protection and mates for reproduction. It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population., Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia (also called Metazoa). The animal kingdom emerged as a basal clade within Apoikozoa as a sister of the choanoflagellates. Sponges are the most basal clade of animals. Animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently at some point in their lives. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later in their lives. All animals are heterotrophs: they must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance., A mouse ( plural : mice ) is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout , small rounded ears , a body - length scaly tail and a high breeding rate . The best known mouse species is the common house mouse ( Mus musculus ) . It is also a popular pet . In some places , certain kinds of field mice are locally common . They are known to invade homes for food and shelter . Domestic mice sold as pets often differ substantially in size from the common house mouse . This is attributable both to breeding and to different conditions in the wild . The most well known strain , the white lab mouse , has more uniform traits that are appropriate to its use in research . The American white - footed mouse ( Peromyscus leucopus ) and the deer mouse ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) , as well as other common species of mouse - like rodents around the world , also sometimes live in houses . These , however , are in other genera . Cats , wild dogs , foxes , birds of prey , snakes and even certain kinds of arthropods have been known to prey heavily upon mice . Nevertheless , because of its remarkable adaptability to almost any environment , the mouse is one of the most successful mammalian genera living on Earth today . Mice can at times be vermin , damaging and eating crops , causing structural damage and spreading diseases through their parasites and feces . In North America , breathing dust that has come in contact with mouse excrement has been linked to hantavirus , which may lead to Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome ( HPS ) . Primarily nocturnal animals , mice compensate for their poor eyesight with a keen sense of hearing , and rely especially on their sense of smell to locate food and avoid predators . Mice build intricate burrows in the wild . These burrows typically have long entrances and are equipped with escape tunnels / routes . In at least one species , the architectural design of a burrow is a genetic trait ., Rodents (from Latin "rodere", "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents; they are found in vast numbers on all continents except Antarctica. They are the most diversified mammalian order and live in a variety of terrestrial habitats, including human-made environments., Subject: mouse, Relation: parent_taxon, Options: (A) amniota (B) animal (C) area (D) human (E) mammal (F) metazoa (G) murinae (H) mus (I) rodentia (J) sauropsida (K) theria (L) theriiformes
Output (English): murinae