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Real rat-ioning! Rodents are becoming CANNIBALS as coronavirus restaurant closures leave a shortage of scraps, expert says
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 14,2020 | Megan Sheets

Posted on 04/14/2020 4:08:54 AM PDT by C19fan

Rats are turning to cannibalism and warring over territories as coronavirus shutdowns create a shortage of food scraps, an expert says. Urban rodentologist Bobby Corrigan has described how the COVID-19 pandemic is sending America's rats into survival mode as stay-at-home orders prompt thousands of restaurants and other businesses to close, cutting off vital vermin food sources. Ravenous rats are now turning on each other in the fight to stay fed - engaging in cannibalism, infanticide and death matches during gruesome turf wars.

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: again; rats; rodents; virus
I wonder how the C.H.U.Ds are doing?
1 posted on 04/14/2020 4:08:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Cuomo vs. De blasio?


2 posted on 04/14/2020 4:12:29 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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To: C19fan

Hamas, ISIS, ElQaeda and Hizbollah are eating each other? Where’s my camera?


3 posted on 04/14/2020 4:13:37 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: C19fan

Rats vs. Rats

More Winning!


4 posted on 04/14/2020 4:14:05 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Hamas, ISIS, ElQaeda and Hizbollah are eating each other?”

There are YouTube videos of Jihadists eating the hearts, or livers of their enemies...because, Big Mo said to and all cultures are alike. They’re all just big teddy bears because it’s America and its pro-Israeli policies that MAKE them do it. /s


5 posted on 04/14/2020 4:20:25 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Bon appetite. At this point, what difference does it make.


6 posted on 04/14/2020 4:25:30 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Ymani Cricket

Biden vs. Bernie?


7 posted on 04/14/2020 4:26:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Ymani Cricket

Chuck? Politely decline Nancy’s invitation for dinner. I wouldn’t mind if she ate you, but she might want sex, and the image of that union is too horrible to contemplate.


8 posted on 04/14/2020 4:28:27 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: C19fan
Urban rodentologist Bobby Corrigan

Rodentologist. Really? Is that a thing? When I google the term, mainly this article comes up. In actuality, the guy earned an "Excellence in IPM award from the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) at Cornell University".

So he's a rodent control guy with a fancy Cornell certificate.

https://nysipm.cornell.edu/about/we-give-awards/2016-excellence-ipm-award-winners/robert-corrigan/

9 posted on 04/14/2020 4:33:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: C19fan

So, will some of them get rat kuru?


10 posted on 04/14/2020 4:50:43 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: Flick Lives

Rats usually eat each other when there is a lack of food. It’s one of the ways of getting rid of them, besides poison — just remove their food sources and they will devour each other.


11 posted on 04/14/2020 5:03:46 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight

Rats usually eat each other when there is a lack of food. It’s one of the ways of getting rid of them, besides poison — just remove their food sources and they will devour each other.

Are we talking about CNN again?


12 posted on 04/14/2020 5:06:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: C19fan

thinning the herd


13 posted on 04/14/2020 5:24:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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Soylent Grey is Rats!!!

Shape of things to come for us all


14 posted on 04/14/2020 5:25:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: Flick Lives

I guess I’m a bugologist.
Wait,what about the term entomologist.
I guess NY dems would need a special thesaurus to translate that.


15 posted on 04/14/2020 5:38:46 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: C19fan

I am tired of watching marble racing, any rat war videos?


16 posted on 04/14/2020 5:38:51 AM PDT by pas
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To: C19fan

Interesting side effect

I live in the country and have notice a very large increase in the number of predators going after my chickens. I lost 2 baby chicks in one day last month

I wonder if this is a good time to put out rat poison and exterminate a good portion of them?

Scavengers do play a role in ecology, though...


17 posted on 04/14/2020 5:42:10 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Eleutheria5

It is probably a sure way to get the rats infested with the virus. They will then spread it, just like they did in the Dark Ages.


18 posted on 04/14/2020 6:51:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: C19fan

This cannibal behavior also eliminates smaller weaker rats, so the gene pool going forward will be more robust for a while.


19 posted on 04/14/2020 7:12:31 AM PDT by lurk
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I have been to New York many times and it’s absolutely disgusting how they put massive piles of trash bags right on the sidewalks for people walk by. While the trash sits on the sidewalk rats just crawl up, a bite a hole in the cheap plastic, and have a feast.

And then the same fools from New York tell me how much smarter they are than people out in the countryside.


20 posted on 04/14/2020 8:52:14 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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