Mass rodent death of NYC Rats during Ida

[Orbital-Fetus]

People don't realize how bad it is for stuff like this to keep happening.

If rats are dying en masse what happens to animals that survive off eating rats? And when those animals die what happens to the animals that eat them?


Climate change is going to be a disaster for the food chain.

New York doesn't have enough coyotes, cougars, possums and snakes.

That's why rats run so free up there because they don't have enough natural predators to keep their population down.

there aren't any predators we could introduce that wouldn't be a nuisance. perhaps the city should explore controlled flooding to tackle the problem.

yeah, NYC does not have a wildlife population like that.
LA and other places have coyotes, cougars, birds of prey and shyt
that play that role but i can't imagine importing them in to fukk up rats.
there are birds of prey in all 5 boroughs i imagine but not to the point
were they are gonna put a dent in the rat legion.

 

[Nero Christ]

the animal threads really are saving this section

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Imagine, the storm put a huge dent in NYC's rat problem.

the unexpected consequences of an event can fukk your head up.
the price of used cars has gone up 35% this past year because of
chip shortage, because of covid. my five year old GPU is going for
double it's MSRP because of the chip shortage...because of covid.

a rat holocaust was not on my bingo list of Ida aftermath.
shyts crazy, yo.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

the animal threads really are saving this section

 

[Breh the HitMang]

hell nah, as soon as that little muthafukka
lifts the toilet seat

 

[Woodrow]

 

[Wild self]

People don't realize how bad it is for stuff like this to keep happening.

If rats are dying en masse what happens to animals that survive off eating rats? And when those animals die what happens to the animals that eat them?


Climate change is going to be a disaster for the food chain.

Hawks and Falcons are gonna suffer first.

 

[pawdalaw]

but NY media acting like this is a tragedy

someone ain't gon like this shyt.

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

The good thing is Chinese food specifically the orange chicken prices about to be cheap as hell for awhile

Listen

if Chinese spots continue to make those orange fried rat pieces slapping then I’m not even gonna complain

 

[iBrowse]

What game is this?

Plague Tale: Innocence.

 

[wizworld]

There really are huge dead rats lying dead in the streets. There was a huge dead rat on 141st down the block from St. Nicholas Park just lying there for several days. It's face was covered in maggots and it's body was covered by flies.
You can probably find it somewhere on instagram or reddit because it just looked absolutely insane.

When the storm hit a lot of rats came above ground. The aftermath is just nasty.

 

[Ozymandeas]

Good. I hate rats

Rats gotta get better branding. They’re in the same family as Gerbils and Hamsters but we immediately feel disgusted at them whereas we think Gerbils and Hamsters are cute. IDK why.

 

[BrothaZay]

Rats gotta get better branding. They’re in the same family as Gerbils and Hamsters but we immediately feel disgusted at them whereas we think Gerbils and Hamsters are cute. IDK why.

I don't

 

[Breh the HitMang]

There really are huge dead rats lying dead in the streets. There was a huge dead rat on 141st down the block from St. Nicholas Park just lying there for several days. It's face was covered in maggots and it's body was covered by flies.
You can probably find it somewhere on instagram or reddit because it just looked absolutely insane.

When the storm hit a lot of rats came above ground. The aftermath is just nasty.

 

[O.Red]

Why does NYC have so many rats compared to other major cities?
Been to plenty of cities with large concentrated downtown areas, LA/Chicago/Houston/Philly/DC/SF/Bangkok/Paris etc, none of them had rat problems like NYC. even dirty places like philly, SF and baltimore

Concentration

Where ever you have a high concentration of people you will have an even higher concentration of rats

More people=more trash=more rats

The rat problem in LA has actually gotten exponentially worse

And a city like Houston can't be considered concentrated in any form compared places as packed in as NY