2023年10月13日 · Notwithstanding the rats apparent continuing presence in New York City, work is now being done to bring that population down—and pest controllers say it is having an impact.

2016年3月14日 · New York City rats can be big, and because of some yucky research, we now know just how big. Matthew Combs, a doctoral student at Fordham University, and his colleagues collected hundreds of rats for an ongoing study to determine how the creatures colonize.

However, a 2023 study estimates that there are approximately 3 million rats in New York, which is close to a third of New York's human population. The city's rat population is dominated by the brown rat (also known as the Norway rat). The average adult body weight is 350 grams (12 oz) in males and about 250 grams (8.8 oz) in females.

2020年11月21日 · Rats as big as bunnies are roaming the streets in broad daylight, nesting in trees and chewing through car engine wires that can cost thousands to fix.

2024年3月7日 · NEW YORK - Almost every New Yorker saw Ruth McDaniels' viral comments saying she saw "rats the size of Crocs" running up and down the street of her Harlem neighborhood. McDaniels made the...

2024年3月6日 · A video posted to X of a huge rat being dragged by an even bigger rodent in the New York subway station looks like something straight out of a horror film.

5 天之前 · A golden retriever checks out a giant rat at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto. Nick Lachance/Toronto Star/Getty Images. ... It had a 1.5 times greater growth in rat populations than New York City.

2024年9月17日 · New York City has lots of rats. Officials are trying to contain them by resorting to something many other cities have relied on for years.

1 天前 · New York City is getting rattier, thanks to climate change. That’s a takeaway from a new study, which found cities that warmed the most saw the largest hikes in rat populations.. Using data from public rat sightings and inspections between 2007 and 2024, the researchers examined 16 cities around the world and found two-thirds saw increases in rat populations.