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New York City rats can be big, and because of some yucky research, we now know just how big.
Matthew Combs, a doctoral student at Fordham University, and his colleagues collected hundreds of rats for an ongoing study to determine how the creatures colonize. But in the process, they’ve given us a better idea of how the rodents can range in size.
No, New York City rats aren’t as big as cats (at least the well-fed domestic ones), as Gotham mythology would have it. However, the vermin are of a heft that will give you nightmares in a New York minute.
Combs recently showed off the biggest catch to The Huffington Post — a 675-gram (nearly 1 1/2 pounds) monster. It’s right here to disgust/terrify/fascinate you.
There’s good news for musophobia sufferers. If you’re concerned that there’s some mutation out there, resulting in rodents of a gargantuan size, well …
“I do not think there are any 3-pound rats in the city,” Combs told The Huffington Post last week. “There seems to be a physiological limit to their size at about 2 pounds. I would need some physical evidence to believe they can get any larger.”
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James' World 2 
Mar 13, 2022 @ 07:03:34
2 million rats in NYC, is there that many people in the city? More than the size is the amount of them, which is unhealthy and disgusting!
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Mar 14, 2022 @ 15:35:37
You should check out the rat population on the Park Ave median in NYC.
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Mar 18, 2022 @ 08:02:01
No thanks
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