Urban Rodentology (SEWER RATS) with Dr. Robert Corrigan  

Image description: Urban Rodentologist and rat expert Dr. Robert Corrigan squats down on a city sidewalk, using a flashlight to look into a ventilation grate. He is wearing blue jeans, a plaid shirt, a black fleece pullover, and a white construction…

Image description: Urban Rodentologist and rat expert Dr. Robert Corrigan squats down on a city sidewalk, using a flashlight to look into a ventilation grate. He is wearing blue jeans, a plaid shirt, a black fleece pullover, and a white construction helmet. 

RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. They inspire movies that inspire musicals. Proving that not just woodsy megafauna can be charismatic, rats have lives we would never suspect. Globally-lauded Urban Rodentologist Dr. Robert Corrigan, or Bobby if you like, has been studying these animals in their big-city ecosystem for decades and he is a wonder-filled joy. Learn about rats’ origin story, the difference between a rat and a mouse, where they live, their preferred “food dialects,” and how to (hopefully humanely) keep one out of your house -- or car? Might as well start to love and respect them, because we’re not-too-distantly related and one day… they may be steering the ship. 

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A donation went to the Yash Gandhi Foundation


More links you may enjoy:

Dr. Robert Corrigan on LinkedIn 

NYC rat control advice

Bobby holding a taxidermied sewer rat 

New Yorkers: here’s a live rat map for you 

The Ratatouille Musical IS REAL 

Listen to some Ratatouille, if you like 

The original Pizza Rat video 

Dr. Austin Frischman -- Urban Entomologist and cockroach expert

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Rats: quick to evolve

How a lady rats tells you she’s in the mood

DeepSqueak algorithmic software

Rat kings!

A squirrel king! Oh noooo!

Huge ass extinct Amazonian rats

There needs to be a gadget for measuring bite force -- OH THERE IS

Bite force of a naked mole rat

Don't blame rats for the plague

Dr. Corrigan teaches “ratology”

NBC news headline about “starving, angry desperate cannibal rats”

Dr. Corrigan’s research

Capybara!

Huge prehistoric rats

How much does an empanana weigh

Horror movies about rats

Why we use mouse models

Mouse vs. rats

More mouse vs. rat

Rat chatter

Oh my lordosis

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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

Website by Kelly R. Dwyer

Theme song by Nick Thorburn

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