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[theweaselking]

Attempting to discover why rats are so hard to eradicate, scientists released a single rat onto a rat-free island. They tagged with with a radio collar, and then used traps, baits, dogs, and everything else they could think of to catch it.

After 10 weeks on the island, the rat got tired of avoiding their futile attempts to catch it, and swam to another one.

Comments

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

The rats and the cockroaches will inherit the earth...heee!

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Obviously, there is some extraordinarily resiliant cryptotheria which is closely related to the rat.

(Either that, or rats *are* cryptotheria, in much the same way tomatos are fruit, and very few people have noticed yet. Might have to figure out why cryptotaxoniomists consider them such--

(--never mind. Rat kings.)

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

"Our results may help in the design of conservation strategies to keep islands free of invasive rodents," Russell and team added.

What, piss them off by chasing them around with dogs, traps, etc, for a couple weeks, then locate a conveniently rat-crowded island nearby?