In the port city of Tenby, giant rats are destroying Castle Hill by burrowing into it. Local residents no longer believe that rodents will be exterminated.
In the south-west of Wales (UK), residents of the seaside town of Tenby are plagued by giant rats the size of a domestic cat. The Daily Mail writes about it.
According to locals, the rodents damage the rocks along the picturesque coastline with their burrows.
Roger Miles, a local boatman, said the problem has worsened in recent months.
“Early evenings, twilight, early mornings, rats everywhere,” the man complained.
According to locals, the rodents damage the rocks along the picturesque coastline with their burrows.
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Tenby’s biggest fear is that the rats’ burrowing will destroy part of the cliffs on Castle Hill, which are already damaged by erosion.
Mayor Sam Skyrme-Blackhall said he would take action and City Hall would install dozens of boxes of bait to exterminate rodents. However, the townspeople do not believe that the problem can be solved in this way.
When rats reach sexual maturity four or five weeks after birth, a population of two can grow to a whopping 1,250 within a year.
“We simply cannot kill them faster than they can reproduce,” one of the locals told the media in a comment.
Recall that at the end of March it became known that a seaweed ball twice the size of the United States was approaching the shores of Florida. “Sea grapes”, as the sargassum algae is also called, emits a toxic gas that can be dangerous to humans and provoke respiratory arrest.
We also wrote that in 2022 in the USA they found out why rodents began to settle in cars more often. Scientists say that this phenomenon was another consequence of the coronavirus epidemic.
