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csziggy

(34,189 posts)
9. He should just go to Florida and hunt African giant pouch rats
Thu Jul 4, 2019, 10:23 PM
Jul 2019

If he wants rat meat. Those things are invasive and he'd probably be praised for killing off a few dozen or so.

Florida tries to wipe out cat-sized African rats
Laura Myers

GRASSY KEY, Florida (Reuters) - Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals.

U.S. federal and state officials are beginning the final phase of a two-year project to eradicate the Gambian pouched rats, which can grow to the size of a cat and began reproducing in the remote area about eight years ago.

“This is the only place in the United States where this is occurring,” said Gary Witmer, a biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado.

“They don’t belong here and they need to be controlled.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-rats/florida-tries-to-wipe-out-cat-sized-african-rats-idUSN2430572020070524

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