Welcome to RAT CITY. Reviled for millennia, the Brown rat is one of the most familiar creatures on the planet - but perhaps the least understood. We know more about life on Mars than how rats navigate life on Earth. RAT CITY dives down the...See moreWelcome to RAT CITY. Reviled for millennia, the Brown rat is one of the most familiar creatures on the planet - but perhaps the least understood. We know more about life on Mars than how rats navigate life on Earth. RAT CITY dives down the rathole to uncover remarkable superpowers that make Brown rats the evolutionary heroes of the animal kingdom, thriving in the urban landscape. Escape artists, problem solvers and master contortionists, they're supremely equipped to infiltrate our world. In New York City, urban rodentologist Bobby Corrigan reveals the brown rat's uncanny ability to use the urban landscape to its advantage. In Vancouver, wildlife health biologist Dr. Kaylee Byers makes a cutting-edge discovery that Vancouver's rat population is organized into distinct clans throughout the city. At the University of Richmond in Virginia, behavioural neuroscientist Dr. Kelly Lambert discovers that driving miniature cars acts as a stressbuster for rats, but it also improves their brains' ability to adapt, which may lead to a better understanding of disorders and diseases such as ADHD and Alzheimer's. Back on the busy streets of New York City, one particular rat, a social media phenom named Buddy, is on a crusade to deliver the message to New Yorkers about proper sanitation. RAT CITY unmasks, and celebrates, humankind's most reviled antagonists, and reveals that it's really the human inhabitants that "set the table" for one of the planet's ultimate survivors. Written by
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