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How big ARE New York's rats? Researcher catches rodent three times the size of a normal beast
The Daily Mail ^ | March 4, 2016

Posted on 03/04/2016 4:12:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

How big ARE New York's rats? Researcher catches one-and-a-half pound rodent three times the size of a normal beast

"...'I've caught rats all over the city, and I've seen the ones that I didn't catch. I think it's among the biggest that live in New York City,' said Matt Combs of Fordham University.

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One of the largest rats ever reported in New York City was a huge beast dubbed Master Splinter by the Twitter user that first posted a picture of it.

The enormous rat was found in a Footlocker store in the Bronx in 2012, according to Twitter user TheGoodfella.

Another classic rodent beast was speared by an employee at Brooklyn's Marcy Houses housing project in 2011.

Jose Rivera, 48 spotted the rat coming out of a hole and stabbed it with a pitchfork, reported the New York Daily News.

The rodent was up to three feet long and appeared to be a Gambian pouched rat, according to the Daily News.

The most common rat in New York City is of the rattus norvegicus species.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: newyorkcity; rats; research; rodents; runaway
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To: T-Bird45

Thanks. Now I see six tines.


41 posted on 03/04/2016 6:17:14 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Best rat movie ever.....

“Of Unknown Origin” (1983)

Really worth a look


42 posted on 03/04/2016 6:20:33 AM PST by Robe (yo)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That’s not a rat. Someone killed Lassie.


43 posted on 03/04/2016 6:21:38 AM PST by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: DaxtonBrown

“The rodent was up to three feet long and appeared to be a Gambian pouched rat, according to the Daily News.”

When I first read this I thought it was a recipe for Gambian “poached” rat.


44 posted on 03/04/2016 6:24:29 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (GOPe - Enriching the consultant class while selling out their constituents.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Meh. Standard pitchfork isn’t as wide as it appears in the pic. Neither is the scraper the first rat is on. Those pictures have an odd forced perspective. I dare say they’re barely bigger than normal rats, if any bigger at all.


45 posted on 03/04/2016 6:34:38 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Sumatran Rat Monkey?


46 posted on 03/04/2016 6:58:02 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: meatloaf

“{Who walks around with a pitch fork in New York City?”


Haven’t you heard? A tree grows in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is much more a congested suburb than a city - it ain’t Manhattan.


47 posted on 03/04/2016 7:22:21 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: AndrewB

Rodents of unusual size

(See Princess Bride)


48 posted on 03/04/2016 7:23:56 AM PST by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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To: Safetgiver

Thanks for that story. Brings me back to my days of scurrying into bunkers dodging 122mm rocket fire at FSB A-4 on the DMZ. We had to duel with the rats that would start bugging out when the bunker shook. One guy had a chunk of his lip bitten off when a rat went after some C-Rat peanut butter left on his lip after he had fallen asleep.

When they packed up the mess hall tent, a whole horde of them ran out from underneath it. We had to break up that infiltration with E-Tools, boots and rifle butts.


49 posted on 03/04/2016 8:31:00 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Two legged or four?


50 posted on 03/04/2016 2:02:08 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

: )

Bingo.


51 posted on 03/04/2016 3:10:10 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Arlis

I was once very nearly an Olympic biathlete (skiing, shooting) and one of the fellows with whom I trained had the following summer job description: Ride ATV around, shoot prairie dogs.

Funny thing, we talked about it later and it really bothered him.


52 posted on 03/06/2016 7:46:50 AM PST by golux (The password you used did not match the password on file.)
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To: golux

Huge difference between rats & prairie dogs - rats are dangerous pets that spread disease, even bite humans, and the world has far too many of them......Prairie dogs are cute little fella’s that generally don’t hurt anyone, but do cause holes in the prairie’s that can be a problem for big 4-legged beasts......


53 posted on 03/06/2016 10:45:56 AM PST by Arlis
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