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Old September 28th 18, 04:25 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Default Cats terrible for catching rats


https://www.wired.com/story/rats-vs-cats/

IN THE SUMMER of 2017, Michael Parsons found the urban rat haven of his
dreams: A Waste Management transfer station—aka a literal trash heap, aka
rat paradise—in Brooklyn, New York. For nearly two years, the behavioral
ecologist and visiting scholar at Fordham University had been searching
for a place to observe the city-dwelling rodents in their natural habitat.

Trouble was, he needed to not only capture the critters and tag them, but
then to set them free. ...
....
But a few months into their investigation, they discovered with horror
that five feral cats had infiltrated the waste treatment facility and
begun patrolling the entrances to the rats' burrows.

At first, Parsons and his colleagues assumed that the felines posed a
mortal threat to their subjects. Then it hit them: They actually had no
idea how the rats would respond. Few studies have documented interactions
between feral cats and a wild rats. To a behaviorist like Parsons, the
cats' surprise arrival presented an irresistible opportunity. They decided
to let nature take its course.

Their observations, which the researchers recount in the latest issue of
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, revealed the cats to be miserable
predators of rats ...
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