Wherever humans go, rats follow, forming shadow cities under our metropolises and hollows beneath our farmlands. In most other respects, “the rat problem”, as it has come to be known, is a perfect nightmare. The one-rat-per-human in New York City estimate is pure fiction. (For some otherwise rational people, this is a genuine concern.) They are not indestructible, and there are not as many of them as we think. Rat skeletons cannot liquefy and reconstitute at will. Their communities are not led by elusive, giant “king rats”. They do not, as was reported in 1969 regarding an island in Indonesia, fall from the sky. ![]() They are not blind, nor are they afraid of cats. Apart from a specific subtropical breed, they do not get much bigger than 20 inches long, including the tail.
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