Flora, Ghost, and Pumpkin got a carved pie pumpkin during playtime on Halloween 2025.

#rats #petrats

🎻🎩 The Pied Piper's "grim truth" turns out to be about as grim as a toddler's tantrum after nap time. BBC's deep dive into fairy tales reveals a shocking lack of actual research—no #rats were consulted in the making of this article. 🐀📚
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200902-the-grim-truth-behind-the-pied-piper #PiedPiper #FairyTales #GrimTruth #BBCResearch #ToddlerTantrums #HackerNews #ngated
The grim truth behind the Pied Piper

Writers like the Grimm Brothers and Robert Browning may have shaped the Pied Piper legend into art, but it turns out the story is likely based on an actual historical incident.

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May the Peace of the Rat be upon you. #rats #petRats

Old but vital #petRats content:

🎶"Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
I'm going to see momma
to eat worms..."🎶

With Ambert, Beemster, and Cremet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzRMHTau6e8 #rats

Rats with Dried Mealworms

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🦇 🐀 #Rats filmed snatching #bats from air for first time.

Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave.

The four-year observational #study showed a small colony of 15 rats could hunt ~2,100 bats in one winter.

It showed rats hunting in total darkness, using whiskers to feel air currents from bat wings.

This may be a reason why potentially bat #pathogens like coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses are spilling over to rodents.

https://www.science.org/content/article/rats-filmed-snatching-bats-air-first-time

#biology #science #nature #health

Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time

Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave

Another alarming case of rodent-related damage has emerged in Indore, this time beneath one of the city’s busiest flyovers. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/indore-shastri-bridge-collapse-rats-madhya-pradesh-ptu5yj68?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Rats #Indore #ShastriBridge #BridgeCollapse
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A German study has documented rats snatching bats midair for the first time, raising concerns that viruses like coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses could jump to rodents and heighten risks to humans and livestock.

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