The chapter delves into a study on city rats and their regional junk food preferences, highlighting how rats in different cities have distinct preferences based on environmental exposure. It discusses the urban rat population, dispelling myths about subway rats and revealing their preferred above-ground habitats for easier access to food. The conversation sheds light on the dynamics of rat behavior and their attachment to prime real estate for survival.
RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. They inspire movies that inspire musicals. Proving that not just woodsy megafauna can be charismatic, rats have lives we would never suspect. Globally-lauded Urban Rodentologist Dr. Robert Corrigan, or Bobby if you like, has been studying these animals in their big-city ecosystem for decades and he is a wonder-filled joy. Learn about rats’ origin story, the difference between a rat and a mouse, where they live, their preferred “food dialects,” and how to (hopefully humanely) keep one out of your house -- or car? Might as well start to love and respect them, because we’re not-too-distantly related and one day… they may be steering the ship.
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