Living with rats involves understanding the city as an ecosystem

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Rats are part of the urban ecosystem and an urban ecology approach to managing their populations may involve learning to share the city.

Rats! They eat our food, chew through our property and spread all sorts of nasty diseases. And they are gross (right?), with those naked tails and quick, unpredictable movements. Rats invade our homes — our castles! — the one place where we should be safe and in control.

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