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 ...
Thanks. Now I see six tines.
Best rat movie ever.....
“Of Unknown Origin” (1983)
Really worth a look
That’s not a rat. Someone killed Lassie.
“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.
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.
Sumatran Rat Monkey?
“{Who walks around with a pitch fork in New York City?”
Brooklyn is much more a congested suburb than a city - it ain’t Manhattan.
Rodents of unusual size
(See Princess Bride)
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.
Two legged or four?
: )
Bingo.
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.
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......
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