environment
23 Dec 2019

Could urban pest control create 'super rats'?

From Afternoons, 1:23 pm on 23 December 2019
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Urban ecologist Jonathan Richardson from the University of Richmond in Virginia has spent a long time studying rats, and thinks current pest control methods could be creating "super" or "sickly" rat populations.

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