Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
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Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#2I lost count after 200,003 rats :)
Do rats serve a useful (for us) purpose there? If not, can we release a rat specific poison or is that impossible without harming the entire ecosystem?
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#3This reminds me of the saying "You're never more than 6 feet from a rat"
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#4currently one 0 missing in the title (200 000 not 20 000)
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#5I lost count after 200,003 rats :) Do rats serve a useful (for us) purpose there? If not, can we release a rat specific poison or is that impossible without harming the entire ecosystem?
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8592817/rat-patrol-new-yo...
The guys who do this professionally/successfully in a sparsely populated place with everyone helping and the advantage that rats can't survive outdoors don't think it's possible in cities.
Big problems with poison: Rats are harder than you think to poison, they're both sceptical of new food and adapted to survive lots of poisons Evolution will work against you and select rats that don't eat or digest your new poison You will poison lots of things you don't intend to (wild animals, pets, humans).
You can imagine an IOT solution in 50 years though (coordinating web of mechanical cats/ferrets with amazing smell/sight that just never stop hunting).
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#6They should check in the town hall. :-)
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#7I lost count after 200,003 rats :) Do rats serve a useful (for us) purpose there? If not, can we release a rat specific poison or is that impossible without harming the entire ecosystem?
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8592817/rat-patrol-new-yo... The guys who do this professionally/successfully in a sparsely populated place with everyone helping and the advantage that rats can't survive outdoors don't think it's possible in cities. Big problems with poison: Rats are harder than you think to poison, they're both sceptical of new food and adapted to survive lots of poisons Evolution will work again…
Then you can change the target (Black Mirror: Metalhead)
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#8They should check in the town hall. :-)
Do they wear yellow ribbons?
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#9currently one 0 missing in the title (200 000 not 20 000)
I thought 20,000 seemed way to low, given the human population of Barcelona is 1.6 million.
200,000 still seems low. I wonder what fraction of the rat population lives outside the sewers.
Re: Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
#10This reminds me of the saying "You're never more than 6 feet from a rat" https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20716625
Neat article, for those looking to save a click:
"Urban areas in the UK cover around 16,000 square kilometres. If we distribute the rats evenly across the urban areas, which is clearly unlikely but necessary for the calculation, each rat has a rather spacious 5,000 square metres to roam around in.
Assuming you're standing at a given spot in an urban area you would be at most 164ft (50m) away."