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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by josefresco on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @07:58AM (#18065520)
Neat article, for those looking to save a click:

"Urban areas in the UK cover around 16,000 square kilometres. If we distribute the rats evenly across the urban areas, which is clearly unlikely but necessary for the calculation, each rat has a rather spacious 5,000 square metres to roam around in.

Assuming you're standing at a given spot in an urban area you would be at most 164ft (50m) away."

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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by tomarr on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:07AM (#18066385)
"Assuming you're standing at a given spot in an urban area you would be at most 164ft (50m) away."

Not sure how they maintain a population if they remain 100m away from each other

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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by albertgoeswoof on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:45PM (#18067984)
At most not at least
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