Cats Bad at Nabbing Rats But Feast on Other Beasts
Cats Bad at Nabbing Rats But Feast on Other Beasts
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 27, 20186m 56s
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Show Notes
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.
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