Rats turn vicious as coronavirus shuts down food sources like restaurant trash

A rat at Rockefeller Center Subway Station.
A rat at Rockefeller Center Subway Station.

The rat race has turned nasty.
Rodents have resorted to open warfare, cannibalism and eating their young since coronavirus shut down restaurants and other food sources vital to the existence of the city’s creatures of the night, according to NBC News.
“It’s just like we’ve seen in the history of mankind, where people try to take over lands and they come in with militaries and armies and fight to the death, literally, for who’s going to conquer that land,” rodent expert Bobby Corrigan said.
According to Corrigan, the hungrier rats get, the more desperate they will become in places like New York City. A 2014 study found that 2 million cheese-eaters call the Big Apple home.

In New Orleans, where rats have been spotted hitting the town in packs, pest control experts worry frenzied rodents pose a threat to the homeless. That city plans to put out bait for the next month to control the influx of rats, who have become embolden by social distancing.

Washington, D.C., and Baltimore have also seen an uptick of rats moving through previously populated areas now under quarantine. In addition to posing a threat to one another, rats transmit disease to humans.


4 comments:

  1. And I thought most of them lived in DC.

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  2. Unintended consequences come in all shapes sizes and creatures.

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  3. 20 gauge, Snake-Shot with three rat terriers. Better'n Ghost Busters....

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  4. Well, if there's going to be a food shortage....

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