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Climate change has brought longer stretches of warmer weather, which means more time for breeding.
Rats are, “a thing of beauty in many different ways,” Bobby Corrigan said, and “as a mammal, it’s a very successful mammal” The most common rat species in the United States , the Norway rat, first came to the country around 1775 .
Globally, a number of countries have pushed rat eradication in recent years .
New Zealand has pledged to rid itself of all rats by 2050 .
Alberta , Canada , has been rat-free since 1950 thanks to rat control program.
For all the negatives, rats do have an upside: They have added 25 to 30 years to humans’ longevity as a species.
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