Joe Shute
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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There is one very interesting exception to that rule in North America, in Alberta.
And since the 1940s, the provincial government there have essentially been waging war on rats.
Well, it's a species of rodent, is the kind of family.
The rats that your audience will be familiar with are the brown rat and the black rat.
Both of them originate from the eastern corner of the world, black rats from India and brown rats from northern China.
And from there, they've spread successfully and conquered everywhere in the world.
Every continent apart from Antarctica, you'll find them on.
And they followed humans.
You know, they follow humans wherever we've gone.
Rats have gone.
Size is the big one.
Rats are considered both brown rats and black rats.
Brown rats are the biggest of all, but they're considerably bigger than mice.
In the UK, there's the record for the largest brown rat caught is over about half a, I think it was a foot long, talking off the top of my head from nose to tail.
Both kind of exist on sort of scraps that humans create either kind of around our houses or in the crops that we grow.
But rats are much more sort of ferocious in terms of being predators as well.
Rats will happily eat a frog or a baby bird.
um and which is something that mice wouldn't do mice are kind of nibblers rats are norahs and it's that it's the size and the the kind of hunting ability of rats which has made them such a kind of demonized animal as well because they can particularly among things like seabirds they can have a catastrophic impact on populations because they can eat chicks
They're a creature that we tell so many kind of stories about.
This was another thing that piqued my interest in rats.
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