When one the farm, we needed to clear out a bunch of rats and I found one trap with just a leg in it, the rat had chewed off the leg to get away...another trap had only the rats tail in it....we also found out you have to tie the trap to something they cannot limp away with...we lost one trap and never did find it....another one was so gross I won’t even mention it.... they know what they need to do to get free....and do it...
Yup, they do. Any trapper (if that’s even still legal) that has run his trapline has found ‘part’ of the animal they caught and the rest is long gone.
Rats, mice, wolf, bear. The guy in Utah stuck in a rock.
The survival is strong in them critters. The guy, OK, he’s sentient ;)