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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by Tharkun on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:16AM (#18066050)
200k doesn't seem like that much. Rats aren't very big, and Barcelona is a pretty large city, with a population of about 1.5M humans. I would have expected more, having grown up in a rural area where there's a lot more mice, rats and other critters than one per 7 humans.
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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by Retric on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:11AM (#18066413)
A city’s aewers are tiny relative the city’s area. Parks, Apartments, etc are all going to increase the city’s rodent population.
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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by qubax on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:11AM (#18066944)
Yeah, that number seemed low to me as well. I always assumed there would be more rodents in a city than humans. Odd to see that there are a million more humans than rodents in barcelona.
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