Right now the two most successful vertebrate species on the entire planet are in a bit of a tussle at my house, and maybe at yours, too.
Scientists believe we have identified and described only a small fraction of our planet’s living creatures. What with 800 streaming services and e-scooters in our bike lanes and other distractions, biologists have only gotten around to documenting 1.5 million animal species.
One provides food and shelter, and the other takes it all in exchange for poop and chaos. The two species at the centre of this standoff are, of course, humans and rats. NGK breezily says rats are mainly nocturnal and live underground, ignoring how close that description matches Dante’s account of Inferno, and cheerily notes that although rats outnumber humans, we rarely see them because they are experts at staying out of sight. Let me point out this is most people’s conception of serial killers, not friendly fellow vertebrates like the Num Num Cat on YouTube.
In January 2023, B.C. prohibited the sale and use of a class of pretty effective rat poisons known as second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides . These poisons are way more killy than other forms of rat control, such as individually beating them to death with your fists. Unfortunately, SGARs are a little too killy, because wildlife that eat rodents can also die from the poison.
I don’t know if those numbers indicate an official infestation, but I do know Vancouver is one of three B.C. cities in Canada’s top five “rattiest,” as compiled by the good people at Orkin Canada, who also noted new levels of aggressive behaviour in rodents, such as — I swear I am not making any of this up — “cannibalism, street fights and territorialism.”
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