Rats as big as CATS prowl the streets as pest control officers are called to 5,000 sightings in a year in just one city
Rats as big as cats have been scouring the streets of Birmingham, breaking holes in walls and ravaging bins, reports claim.
像貓一般大的巨鼠在英國伯明罕大街上 "出沒" ( scour (v) to search very carefully and thoroughly through an area, a document, etc 〔徹底地〕搜查〔某地或某物〕), 並到處搞破壞
Pest control has gone into overdrive to tackle more than 5,100 sightings of the enormous animals in the city just one year.
Colin Watts, managing the crackdown, said he saw a two-foot rodent as 'wide as a brick'.
He said: 'One of the biggest I've seen must have been 14 or 15 inches long.
'That was just the body, without the tail.
'With its tail it would have been over 2ft. It was like a small cat.'
One professor blames the obesity epidemic and households' unhealthy diets for fuelling the pests' appetite and eating habits.
Dr Robin Allaby, professor in evolutionary genetics at Warwick University, said: 'Humans have got bigger with nutrition and it's a quite likely explanation for rats as well.'
Mr Watts added that some rats felt as heavy as two bags of sugar.
'They're unbelievably big and heavy when you pick them up,' he said.
'It's because of all the food around for them in bags.
'They are definitely getting bigger.
Earlier this month, councillors objected to plans to privatise Birmingham's pest control service, which they claim would make the essential service too expensive for residents.
The service must become self-sufficient within two years so £600,000 can be cut from the budget.
Officers had suggested outsourcing the service and increasing charges.
Young rats can fit into a hole the width of a large pen as their spines were like 'jelly'.
Sexually active and reproducing at just six weeks of age, rats have up to 12 babies at a time.
In a lifetime of around 18 months, they can have approximately 200 offspring.
Mr Watts said: 'Imagine the knock-on effect, it's incredible.
'So it's imperative we keep putting poisons down in Birmingham.'
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前幾天也看見一個新聞說挪威有個家庭裡出現了 38 公分長的巨鼠..., 這該不會是一種生物演進的趨勢吧! 然後人類最後會滅亡的原因其實就是這些巨大化的老鼠造成的...(吐槽)
底下附上我前幾天看到的新聞... 這是天竺鼠吧!!! 體型如此的巨大!! 拒絕相信這是一般的老鼠(淚目 T口T)
Source: http://www.nownews.com/n/2014/03/27/1166985
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