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Cats terrible for catching rats
https://www.wired.com/story/rats-vs-cats/ IN THE SUMMER of 2017, Michael Parsons found the urban rat haven of his dreams: A Waste Management transfer station—aka a literal trash heap, aka rat paradise—in Brooklyn, New York. For nearly two years, the behavioral ecologist and visiting scholar at Fordham University had been searching for a place to observe the city-dwelling rodents in their natural habitat. Trouble was, he needed to not only capture the critters and tag them, but then to set them free. ... .... But a few months into their investigation, they discovered with horror that five feral cats had infiltrated the waste treatment facility and begun patrolling the entrances to the rats' burrows. At first, Parsons and his colleagues assumed that the felines posed a mortal threat to their subjects. Then it hit them: They actually had no idea how the rats would respond. Few studies have documented interactions between feral cats and a wild rats. To a behaviorist like Parsons, the cats' surprise arrival presented an irresistible opportunity. They decided to let nature take its course. Their observations, which the researchers recount in the latest issue of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, revealed the cats to be miserable predators of rats ... .... |
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