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"Rats have personalities, too. Nearly every researcher I spoke to who had worked directly with the animals recalled individuals whose distinctive way of being in the world stands out in their memories." —J.B. MacKinnon for @hakaimagazine
Hakai MagazineIn Defense of the Rat | Hakai MagazineRats are less pestilent and more lovable than we think. Can we learn to live with them?
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We live in a city, and wild brown #rats who visit my flowerbed never cause any issues, other than nibbling on a few herbs I grow. lol Rats are harmless for the most part. And, yes, lovable and curious, and playful.
We have a birthControl bait box (the box is white) to peacefully coexist, and it’s been working. 
Oh, and, #weevil fans, Rhynchites auratus—handsome golden-green weevils—in Saint-Julien, France are at the end of the article.