In a video clip circulating online, a woman appears in shock after seeing a giant rat feeding from a bin in the parking lot of McDonald’s, before rushing into nearby bushes.
According to pest experts, the rats, which can eat almost anything, have become more resistant to poison, in addition to being more adept at finding better places, hiding better and breeding in walls and basements, and they also got bigger and stronger.
Steve Belmin, professor of ecology at the University of Greenwich, said: “It’s easy to imagine the spread of 300 million rats in Britain, which is a real epidemic”, as he described it .
“Rats can certainly gnaw on concrete and metal, and more often soft metals such as tin, aluminum, copper and lead, but I have seen gnaw marks on steel and many hard plastics such as drain pipes,” Belmin added, according to the Daily. To post.
The largest rat ever caught and recorded in the UK was 21 inches long, about the size of a small dog.
Experts fear that rodents such as rats and house mice carry diseases that are harmful to humans.
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