The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has impacted life on Earth in almost every way possible and a new school of thought now focuses on its effect on rats living across the globe.?
To sum up, experts now suggest that a smarter, more aggressive breed of rats might emerge out of the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world.
The thought stems from the places infested with rats. Since rats usually nest around the garbage dumpsters of restaurants, their shutdown due to the?Coronavirus?pandemic has left the rats with no food from their regular source.
Multiple experts now suggest that the resulting breed of rats might turn to cannibalism and infanticide to survive. They might also now move in hordes in search of new sources of food and chances are the resulting breed that makes it through will be smarter, more aggressive than their ancestors.
As Bobby Corrigan, an urban rodentologist, explains in an interview with NBC News, "A restaurant all of a sudden closes now, which has happened by the thousands in not just New York City but coast to coast and around the world, and those rats that were living by that restaurant, some place nearby, and perhaps for decades having generations of rats that depended on that restaurant food ¡ª well, life is no longer working for them, and they only have a couple of choices."
He also mentions the choices to be grim - including cannibalism, rat battles and infanticide. So the smarter and fiercer rats that survive could be giving birth to a smarter, fiercer breed than before within their 23-day pregnancy period.
A worst case scenario might involve these rats being infected with hantavirus or such infections, but cases of human infections are so rare that we don't have to worry about that front just yet. But a fiercer, more aggressive rat species emerging out of the Coronavirus pandemic is definitely something that can be a cause for local and community nuisance.
A learning shared by the experts from this is to ramp up the pest and rodent control measures in residential areas as well as business complexes to curb the growth of rat colonies.