Closing US restaurants has brought many rats to the brink of hunger • "Bands are fighting for new territories, and those who are stronger - surviving and eating, sometimes even young rats."
Rat // Photo: AFP
Following the closure and cessation of restaurant operations, cannibalism and gang fights are seen between rats in the US
The closure in the United States, which includes the closure of many restaurants and food stores and the emptiness of the streets, causes the animals to come out of hiding. However, they are not usually deer, sheep or bears but huge armies of hungry rats, which have maintained their communities for generations around a restaurant or neighborhood supermarket.
Bobby Carrigan, a pest control expert, told US NBC News this week that these rats are now starving, and going to war on new territories to find food for themselves. But the food on the streets is shrinking, and sometimes cannibalism can be seen among the rats.
"Almost a quarter of the US food business is closed," Krigian explains. "This means huge bands of rats that used to have a food source find themselves without that source. And here as with humans, unpleasant plays are seen as flocks of rats fight between them for new territories and those who survive more powerfully and eat. But the condition and hunger of the rats is so bad that you never see the adult rats in their flock devour the young rats because of this hunger. "
Bobby Carrigan's report is not the only report of very unusual behavior of rats across the United States following the closures. In a video taken last night in New Orleans, rats are seen trying to nibble a lid of hungry sewage and try to take away his leftover food. Experts in the United States point out that this is a real risk for the homeless and homeless in the country, as the situation can lead to herds of rats attacking them, too, out of desperation to find food.