Polynesian Rat Population Can Double in 47 Days in a Lab Setting

Polynesian rat population can double in 47 days in a lab setting. There are no predators on the island. Plenty of food. So if they multiplied, there could have been as many as two to three million rats on this island. And you hit it on the head. They eat trees. The people had some real ingenious adaptations. Like the rats allegedly came and kept the trees from growing back, which denuded the island. But then somebody figured out that if you take volcanic rock and just basically sprinkle it, like pretty decent sized chunks of it, but just spread it out over former crop land,. It actually knocks some of the minerals out of the rocks and into the soil. And