Exploring New York's Rattiest Park with a Rodentologist
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- Since the first European colonists set foot in Manhattan in the 1600s, New York City has been losing the war on rats. A recent estimate put the number of rats at around 2 million, about a quarter of the city’s human population, and any efforts to prune that population down have seen limited success.
Rats continue to infest basements, parks, and apartment buildings, chewing through car wiring and the city’s underground communications, and although reports of rats starting a new plague epidemic may be exaggerated, they do undermine quality of life and cause a lot of costly damage.
But now, an aggressive commitment to rounding up these highly unpopular rodents is finally showing real results thanks to a new strategy dedicated to getting inside the rats’ heads-finding their burrows and targeting them in their nests.
In this episode of Transmissions, Motherboard meets up with Matthew Frye, an urban entomologist at Cornell University’s integrated pest management program.
He’s going to show us how we can use learn from animal behavior to hunt rats.
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I’ve been binge watching New York rat videos for the past 2 hours
Same
omg same 😭😭😭
Yo wtf 🤣🤣 me too
I can’t wait to go to New York
Me rn
The rats are considered citizens in NY
I stay in my mom's basement lmao
W
I stay in my mom's basement you mean residents
philippe :))))))))) Cool !!
God's child
New phone
Who this
Those ny rats wear tims in the winter
Dudley Dingleberry deadass B
😂😂😂😂
Lmao
😂😂😂😂😂 now I'm always going to imagine rats wearing them
Dwwwwwwwwwlllll loolll I hate u
She searched through garbage without gloves, and touched her face with dirty hands.
Opals Bodhi what
Opals Bodhi 🤣
she was the rat all along...
You do know that people (and rats) existed for thousands of years before gloves were invented and lived perfectly fine?
well shes ugly af though so what'd you expect.
This was awkward as hell. I felt like I was watching a first date lol.
Sheiska W. Are YOU dating anyone tho?
@Tomas Veigas you do obviously, if you took the time to comment.
Even the rats are running away from that vocal fry.
Totally.
Born and raised in Brooklyn I saw hundreds of rats. Now I’ve been living in Florida for the last 19 years and I’ve only seen one ever while living out here. 🙏🏼
Switched from rats to Alligators lol
because once you leave NY you notice all buildings have those black boxes outside and around the perimeter.
If you place the food/bait outside, no need for them to come inside and they take the poison back to the nest.
Once the rats are gone, the cockroach problem will increase.
+erik nyjdam It's just one after another, hopefully the stray pigeons will develop a taste for insects.
+erik nyjdam Lel this is hilarious, humans blasé attempt at being serious about dealing with a problem or more a situation they created without the attitude to get shit done, or even understand that this is an ecosystem and such plans they half ass about to get said shit done is more then not just something to Delay what there trying to forcefully stop without understanding that they need to work with not attempt to nuke ... more over the symptoms they're trying to stop are often symptoms of an underlying behavior of negligence in the first place... kinda an unconscious excuse to not work on the real issue... the humans impact and the fact that humans are Way easier to work with then everyone tends to crap on about...
I often look at humanity with the same attitude of watching a serious comedy... fucking hilarious bunch :'3
erik nyjdam yass
It's futile, anyway. Rats can fit into any space and swim for 2 miles nonstop.
The worst thing isn't the rats.
The worst thing is that we pump anti-biotics through people and therefore the sewer system when they shit.
The next plague is going to be IMMUNE TO MOST OR ALL CURRENT ANTI-BIOTICS.
And that's not the rat's fault. It's ours.
We should genetically make a pigeon that eat rats and cockroaches and dies at a fast rate #Goals.
Aint no damn way, I could deal with that. I'm 6'2 but I would have shitted on myself if one of those jumped on or near me. Those ppl playing and chilling in the park like they don't even see it. Couldn't be me but I guess they're desensitized
LaQuan Miller these fools used to it. I aint fucking with some bugs let alone a rat
bro i'm the same way i could give a shit less about snakes or spiders, but wild rodents creep me the fuck out.
LaQuan Miller They must be. I'm from Colorado and I freak out when I see a mouse. I've never in my life have seen a rat like that, out in parks, woods, streets, anywhere!
kylem1112 Me too. I could even deal with roaches, hell even the dreaded bed bugs!! all those bugs are disgusting but way more tolerable than that crap!!
Maria Bustamante
LOL i'm from CO too and yeah iv'e never seen rats here or roaches. our insect populations are pretty tame compared to the humid east. i don't know if it's the elevation or what.
What the fuck was this!? Started off good, fell flat really fast.
Move along folks, there's nothing worth 7 minutes here.
+Chris D :) I see what you did there.
+Chris D now This is something i can get behind. #ratslivesmatter
+CtpThinkalot Bannanas its true they were there first
abbykadabby Doesn't mean shit bud... Aborigines were here in Australia before the british came and fucking raped them all to death for their criminal detention centres...
# "If you attain success in the war, it will not prove that you were in the right. It will only prove that your power of destruction was greater." - Gandhi
Rafeeky aborigines are still here in Australia we are not dead
Why don't new yorkers try to have a cleaner city and waste less food instead of hunting rats? i personally feel like it would be a better long term strategy for health and economy.
+ignaodd why not both?
+ignaodd We try, that would be very nice but you have to realize that there are 8 million people here and getting a majority of them on board with anything is a real endeavor
well because:
-they will naturally die/ go away from lack of food
- you don't waste money on trying to do something that will eventually happen
- you don't poison the earth with chemicals
- you don't kill a life form for the purpouse of killing them(not eaing or making use of the body)
-save money from eating the right amount and not overspending
ItchyBoyEnt I agree :(
+ItchyBoyEnt And it's steadily rising, why can't people go somewhere else like some hick town or something.
I was taught by my mother to always scrub out my emptied food cans before throwing in garbage.
She learned this from the years she lived in Iowa.
The weird thing is the rats probably think WE are a very messy species and WE need them to clean up the messes WE leave around..they may have a point.
Just throw melted aluminum, like in those ant hill videos. Na?
Na
if theres a rat infested park in china town new york
how about investigating the restaurants nearby & their kitchens ;)
I see what you did there
+Alex D go back to mexico
Lol
Free meat = More profits.
MingMing Su less then sub human that’s you now go back to eating rats ling ling
New York takes another L.
+Joe Biden's Shotgun i submitted this is worldstar hopefully they upload it
Rats still in the front room
+tonysoprano lmao there was a video of a rat taking a whole slice of pizza back home in a NY subway.
tonysoprano Me too, hopefully fatboy Q will upload it.
+GENGHIS KH4N (putther) That's pizza rat.
Jeez, did she cut her own hair with some safety scissors or something?
Thank you for the laugh. I needed it.
Why do you care
Whackspking I thought that was a fucked up wig
Thanks for making this important point, you phuckin idiot.
You really added a lot to the conversation.
WRZ 2020-08-01
When I saw the title of this video, I knew the park they were talking about. I Spent many late nights in that park sitting on the benches. The largest rats I've seen in my life. I actually did not see any of the larger rats in this news story. Those all looked like average size NYC rats. In all the times I was in that park, not one of those rats ever tried to attack me, or do anything to me. I remember being in that park with a friend at about 2 am a couple times. No other humans in the park. Just us and the rats running in the open across the basketball courts. It's also a park that's more dim than other parks, so that might also lend it self to the larger rat population. The rats in that park have water, LOTS of food, people who for the most part don't mess with them, and fresh air. Those rats are here the same way us humans are here. This is not them on our land. It's both rats and humans living on communal land. As always, this new story has added the squeaking sound effects to the rats. Always seems bad to me when the news does that. Rats usually don't squeak. Even people with pet rats will tell you it's extremely rare. Rats hear one another on sound levels humans can't hear. So those louder sounds they add to movies, are not typical. I'd hope the news quits doing this eventually. Anyway, it was nice to see that park again. If you do not like rats, stay out of that park, and China Town/Financial District of the lower part of Manhattan. One of the reasons those rats do so well, is because there is a such a high concentration of restaurants in that area. In a 2 minute walk around that park, I bet you would find at least 30 restaurants, ice cream places, outdoor fruit stands, fish markets, and grocery stores... if not way more. The rats will still be on Earth after the humans no longer are.
Exactly😂 that’s the problem of highly urbanized commercial areas; where cat’s size is no big deal in comparison to NY Central Park Rats.😂 They are deadly dangerous especially the bubonic plague carrier rodents! Now if they spread such virus then; i guess NY Heallth Department should be alarmed that such infestation should be given serious extermination control to erase the health risk it may cause to humans!
Most sensible statement of this presentation: "As long as there will be humans, there will be rats, and after human extinction there still be rats", adding to this argument, human species evolved from a rodent/rat like prehistoric creature living among dinosaurs. We think rats are disgusting and maleficent, yet they are one of very few species (pigeons being another example) that are living in almost perfect harmony with human species. In my opinion they are like a mirror we can look to see ourselves as people, rats are our direct reflection in natural world, whether we like it or not.
You’d have to clean up at least 70% of the loose trash scattered throughout the city... just to get the rat population down to about 25% of the human population... which is still a ridiculous number. 1 rat per every 4 people...
Rat poisons messed up. It will go up the food chain to aother animals.
Istanbul City has no rats, instead, cats are everywhere, they the cats have exterminated all of them. nyc should do the same
Barcodus The Kid It’s not inhumane..
They need to unleash some of the invasive Pythons overpopulating the Everglades in Florida every Spring. They pythons would eat the rats and then die off in the winter.
I got two cats to get rid of mice & rats in SF CA, they do their job.
The father of turkey will return in the form of a cat
The Asians weren't playing Mahjong, they were playing Chinese chess.
"Oh look, Asians playing some kind of board game I have never seen before. It's gotta be Mahjong!"
Wouldn't kill you to ask them what they were playing before you do such an uninformed report.
+Midnite Reveries Yes the report is so uninformed because they labeled Chinese chess as Mahjong. Damnit!
***** If you don't know what it is, say you don't know it. A reporter is supposed to report accurate information.
Midnite Reveries
It's a report about rats in new york. Saying Mahjong instead of Chinese chess doesn't necessarily affect the report but the credibility it has.
***** Makes the reporter seems uncultured.
+Midnite Reveries You must be some pathetic white hipster who has recently learned about Chinese chess, so now you think that you're the most cultured person around
Does the 'rodenticide' effect the maggots/flies as well? Here in Texas, when I had rats in my backyard there was no freaking roaches, now that they're gone, roaches galore. Flies & roaches are much worst pests IMO.
I was in NYC for a week on vacation. I saw dozens of rats on the subway. I saw a rat on top of a sleeping homeless guy once.
It just wanted to snuggle with him. It meant no harm.
If we had a leveling system in real life, this wouldn’t be a problem because people would fight rats for xp
Rats are smart, they can develop resistance to poisons and chances ate they’ll just move around from one area to the next.
3:22
That ain't mahjong, that's Chinese chess
The last time I was in the city, I sat on a bench to wait. An old woman sitting on the next bench looked at the heap of old fast-food wrappers under a third bench and it moved, she said, "That's a rat!" I said, "This is the subway. And someone was supposed to empty the trash, to keep the rats away from the passengers."
Where are your gloves and protective clothing.
3:33 We have a park in Chicago thats like this except its all raccoons
turtle piggy shieet ^^😂
Raccoon lives matter 😇
Raccoon City.
David Leach Bet them racoons have glocks
David leach where is that park ? I live in Chicago
WOW! I scrolled down and for the first time in weeks I see zero racist comments about refugees. High five everyone! :-)
+Jack Reaper
Ah, thanks, that's better. The comment section felt a bit awkward without the refugee rhetoric. At last I can breathe easy again.
Define racist, when Europe is being invaded by migrants illegally
***** He cant because he's a fucking idiot, he thinks diversity is a good thing probably. Yes 2 wildly opposing cultures being thrown together i cant for see any problems.
We unfortunately lack people with the spine to open fire on the boats and borders. They would soon find other places to go. They are vermin like the rats in this video and should be dealt with accordingly.
+Jack Reaper
Now you know that's not true. Watch the video carefully. You can clearly see that most of them are living in the subway system or in that park. In fact they're primarily burrowing creatures; living in the "gutter" would certainly not offer them protection during daylight hours especially on busy streets.
Torgo When they get into a country without a war, they are no longer refugees. They are safe. They then keep ''fleeing'' to germany and sweden because those countries give them the best welfare. This makes them into economic immigrants. Plus, nobody even knows who these people are, a large amount of them could be from any other country in the middle east.
New York seems like a terrible place to live in.
Carlos Peralta it’s not
It is. It's also wonderful too, somehow. The grime though, _the grime!_
Carlos Peralta Yea and just think Justin Theurox preferred to live there and separate from his lovely wife Jennifer Aniston!
Stephan X What do you think this whole idea going on CZcams and watching these stories is going to be the outcome? Opinions, comments, assertions etc.. Think about, really.
New York City isn't the whole state, I live in New York and I've never seen a rat and its peaceful
If this guy is an actual Rodent Specialist they would know that Rats are very good at controlling the rat population. If there are to many rats in an are the males are very good at eating the young due to lack of food. Generally speaking a population with many juveniles suggests the population that in a cycle of repopulating their numbers.
lol they're playing chinese chess not mahjong
Fucking tourist assuming shit like always
Its amazing that even though I am so much bigger and more intelligent (arguably) , rats absolutely terrify me. I look at them and just see germs and disease. They have even haunted my dreams!
we need more cats lol
+John Dough No we don't.
apparently there is a k9 team trying to deal with this. so we don't defs don't need more cats.
John Dough New York City rats will kill the cats
Like a city in Japan, they have so many rats that now the problem it's A LOT, like a lot of cats. Just search for: japan cat island.
no need for cats just use a snake
The streets will make you feel brand new, big *rats* will inspire you here in New York.
When I was looking for an apartment in NY, I was very careful meaning I would only move in a newer building that was built in 2000 or later. Even if you move in a building that has been totally renovated you don't know what is in the walls and stuff, I lived in a great building VERY, VERY clean. Never saw a rat, mouse or bugs in the building, but at night in the spring/summer/fall. I would always take uber or a cab for the fear of seeing them. I am actually one of the few that liked the cold cold winter, because they would not be out on the streets. I can't believe they can't do more in NY, if they can send a man to the moon, they can do more, they just don't really care. I wound up moving to the suburbs in NJ to a house, because of the rats!!!!
Old comment. But what a pussy
I used to work with my uncle who was an exterminator and lots of restaurants have sub basements watch out, no wonder allways felt lousy after dining in Chinatown. 😥😣😥😥
LMAO I LIVE IN NY AND WHEN I SEE A RAT WE BOTH RUN FROM EACH OTHER LOL....
Well I learned nothing from this.
My mom visited NYC once with me, and she saw a mouse in a road there. Since then the city has been her worst city in the world. never has a thought to visit there again.
It's perfect harmony, Chinese eat rats, and rats eat Chinese food.
Fus Tah 😂😂😂 say mayneee im hollerin over here😂
Fus Tah 😂 😂 😂 😂👍👍
This is why I don’t eat from Chinese people
czcams.com/video/5Wfl_YK_TLI/video.html
I feel sick when I watch that video!
Fus Tah omfg 🤣🤣🤣😭😭🤣🤣🤣
And that's why it's usually a good idea not to live so close to parks, restaurants, and in really old buildings that have fallen apart enough for rats to get in. Could probably release an army of ferrets on this suckers. Dogs are good, too, but it's be a bit too conspicuous having a ton of holes dug by dogs.
4:08 Rats cannot clean or groom their fur. As a result their fur gets dirty and greasy very quickly and they can leave "rub marks" when traveling along walls in residences. Their lack of grooming abilities also causes rats to carry parasitic mites and fleas, which can also become a problem in a residence.
Should learn to live with the rats. I love them.
They don't even know they bother us, they stay out of sight most of the time and mind their own business, they gotta be like "you can't have the WHOLE city"!!
You obviously weren't paying attention to anything in this video.
CZcams should require people to pass some sort of intelligence test before they
allow them to post comments. The first question could be: "How do you feel about
rats? " If you get that wrong, there is no need for a second question, you phuckin idiot.
WRZ 2020-08-01
@@ccdogpark
I mused on the fact that rats don't know they are pests to humans, they hide from us most of time and opined that humans should strive to find ways to coexist with rats.
Nothing in my post would suggest I didn't pay attention to this video.
This is a two year old comment..
You are just a douchebag.
Amen.
ny has so many rats because there's so much trash
That's what people don't understand!! If theirs 30lbs of trash laying on the streets, what do you think will happen?!?!? Geez, how do we fix this?
My thoughts exactly!!!!
I wasn't ready for that yell at 3:17 LOL
yo she asked some pretty dumb questions...
you have to create a rat terminator. equipped with bb guns and infrared. it will record its kills and people can bet on which terminator gets the most kills per night.
Sure you mean raddest park.
StarCrusher. Welcome to Juratsic Park
Being discipline of every individual is the answer. Separate the biodegradable and non biodegrable. Practice discipline thats all.
Start handing out 50 cent per rat tail handed in, that should cut down the rat population drastically.
They tried that with rabbits in Australia. Just created rabbit farms, and overall increased their population.
werewolf435 😂 damn Australians are ruthless.
lmao
3 dollars
@@G_G_G_G_ niggas will have rat farms here in nyc
These videos really have me paranoid i went to Manhattan a couple of weeks ago in was scared that a rat was going to jump on my head or something and i have never felt that way when i went before but that sh!t has definitely changed now.
Motherboard, if I don't see another good video after this shit, I am fucking unsubscribing.
You know, i understand your outrage
14,000,000 tons of trash in NYC in one year alone! No wonder why there's so many rats. Perhaps we should work more on reducing our trash footprint as a species?
Hawks, owls, eagles, cats, dogs, and other rodent predators(not snakes though) could be brought into the city as a way to naturally kill the rats. I hope this doesn't turn into another black plague event.
*Lifts countless trashcan lids
*Puts hands all over her own face
This just in, New york has alot of rats.
I love in New York and i hate the summer just because of the rats...you can't enjoy sitting outside at dinner because they are EVERYWHERE! With us throwing garbage on the street it makes it NO BETTER!
Should have been longer, it just... ended
NYC needs to hire Joseph Carter the Mink Man & his minks! Check out his videos.
I love ratties! They are so nice and tame rats from a breeder are really lovely pets.
Great film; kudos to everyone involved!
Splinter will always live on!
In Davis,CA we are invaded by squirrels that steal students food but they are cute
I have lived in Cyprus in the Mediterranean for 12 years. I have seen one rat and one mouse in the whole time I have lived here. We have many feral cats who do their job and feed on their natural diet. It is customary here to let the cats do their job and not feed them, thus the rodent situation is under control. Simple x
Rats and cats, is that all people can come up with? Cats cause more damage to ecosystems than rats.
The problem in New York is everyone lives in apartments in high rise buildings and no one is allowed to own pets specificaly cats. Cats would soon sort out the rat problem.
She was picking up trash bins, then she touched her face with her nasty hands. Ew.
Tharee tho I noticed that too!!
Seems like a nice symbiotic relationship in NYC.
Too late for this.... New York is too dirty and smelly to clean up at this point....
it never too late
+King landlord Anything to keep more people from coming here
+King landlord Have you seen what it was like 2-3 decades go, the city improved a lot since then.
If the city was cleaner than it was before there wouldn't be so many rats, large one at that....
King landlord whatever will keep the hipsters out
Crazy how 6 years ago this guy said that theres like 100,000 rats in nyc and nowadays experts say theres lole 14,000,000😳
people just can't be clean and respect there environments
@ 1:25 That rat on the bin was a scary unit, those teeth on that device are amazing! Its sitting there like a Boss, wouldnt want to walk past it.
I had pet rats for about 7 years (multiple pairs of rats), they're great, intelligent pets
Then your part of the problem, fuck you vermin
VexedMeerkat Fancy rats (that's their actual name) are amazing pets!! Only dogs make better animal friends.
VexedMeerkat fucking freak.Piece of shit.
There’s a difference between a fancy rat and a street rat similar to a dog or cat compared to a stray dog or cat.
Lol Belami Able is fucking triggered he had enough time to write a book. Belami the only imbecile here is you stfu bitch.
I grew up in Baltimore City and as kids we used to kill them with bb guns.Me and my friend used to sit in his back yard and we would see the rats come out at night and they would be shot.That is how we kids dealt with the rat problems in my neighborhood back in the 1970's and 1980's.
Same here bro it's not really new to me I can hear them squeaking outside now and it's 2 in the evening dead winter like you said brand new daisy and a back window don't need to go anywhere for a good hunt
Why not breed wild cats?
Evyatar No need to get rid of the cats. Cats won't eat your garbage and try to live in your house
Assante Freeman she swallowed the spider to catch the fly...
They to take those terrier dogs on patrol. They kill hundreds of rats at a time
Assante Freeman they be feral what are you even talking about you must not understand cats well and rats aren’t gonna kill anyone it’s not that bad.
Or sell the cats to China either or
It's not possible for there to be a rat for every person in NY? LOL I lived in NY. There's like three rats per person.
Get a free pet rat instead of buying one at your local pet store! :D
That would be like getting a pet wolf instead of a dog, just because the dog breeder asks for money and the forest doesn't.
I've never understood why people claim New York to be "the greatest city on Earth". I've visited there, and holy fuck it is a dirty place. This even further validates my criticism.
Those rats are cute
+wowitsbryce I dare you to spend a night at the park, then we'll see how cute they really are lol
+TheMusketITuckedIt I would if I had the money to travel there. I'm fine as long as they don't touch me.
+wowitsbryce But they are dirty and spread disease.
Ali Khan I'll just wear long jeans and long sleeved shirts. Problem solved.
+Ali Khan Humans are just as bad, don't kid yourself haha. Besides, animals do it unknowingly while (for instance) somebody with herpes lies or doesn't mention it and infects somebody else for their own self-serving satisfaction. Between rats and humans, rats are saints.
6:31 Hands on trash can. 6:47 Hands on face.
That's Chinese chess, not Mahjong.
Thanks for making this VERY important point, you phuckin idiot.
You really added a lot to the conversation.
WRZ 2020-08-01
In Manhattanese, 2.9 mil is a sleeping room, right?
I know this is the last comment you'd expect but does anyone notice the shittier background music?
This needs to go on worldstar
The way they put garbage on the street in US then i can easy understand they have rat's evrywhere.
“A rat turd” lmaooo
Why doesnt ny just get a bunch of hungry cats
cat have better taste than rats for dinner
Take one of those Goodnature A24 CO2 rat traps (bait lures the rat to a CO2-powered piston to the head, instant kill), bait a path to it, mount it above one of those truck-dumped garbage cans so the dead ones fall in, change out the CO2 cartridge a few times a night, and dump a full can of rats every morning. Put a few of those around a NYC neighborhood, and you might have a chance, between that and other methods all working together.
Its china town what do u expect
I knew it. It didn’t take long before they went to Chinatown. Try Soho, Tribeca or upper east side. There are plenty of rats there too.
democRAT
Timobili Parkovich you mean RATpublicans?
Are they talking about Central Park? They live there in large numbers. In winter they go across the street into the high rent apartment buildings. Space between the walls for them to hide in.
all NYC officials gotta do is buy cats and leave them in the park and the trains. case solved!
Yeah
How about baiting right next to their burrows and all the trash cans?
RODENTOLOGIST?!!! COME ON THAT HAS TO BE A MADE UP PROFESSION 🤣🤣🤣
I want to be a rodentologist now.
The Vermintide is coming XD
Rats off to ya!
5:26 oh god... that one on the trashcan!!!