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Hello I had rats before but long time ago and previously I had girls.

Now I have three boys, brothers. The smallest one always initiates a fight with his bigger brother. Other day I seen a fight which most of the times seems like play fighting. But this time I was concerned it could be a rat ball, never seen one so wanted to ask opinion of more experienced people.

The video of actual fight:

Thank you for your help.
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No that looks like general play/ rough housing,poss with a little bit of dominance / pushing and testing the boundaries going on,which they will always do with one another.Full on serious fights or ratballing as you called it,are thankfully rare and involve a tornado of 2 rats,you cannot even make out who is who and ear splitting screeching!!
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No that looks like general play/ rough housing,poss with a little bit of dominance / pushing and testing the boundaries going on,which they will always do with one another.Full on serious fights or ratballing as you called it,are thankfully rare and involve a tornado of 2 rats,you cannot even make out who is who and ear splitting screeching!!
thank you for your answer
I agree with SonicRat. Two of my rats play like this sometimes during their free time.
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I've seen many times, if there's no blood, it's all play. Of course.. if tehre's blood, you have to hope you're not too late. I think also they scream if things are serious.
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