How rats take advantage of human failure
Rats are grosser than we thought, but it’s not their fault.
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It’s estimated that there are over 2 million rats in New York City alone. They often carry infectious diseases like E. Coli and Salmonella and gnaw on infrastructure, causing billions of dollars in damage every year.
But is any of this the rat’s fault? Rodentologist Bobby Corrigan says that rats can only succeed in the midst of human failure. If we were smarter mammals, better at disposing our trash and taking care of our infrastructure, then we wouldn’t have to worry about rats in our cities.
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@MaryValentinaSucaMontalvo
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Do rats have feelings?
@frolic63
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Human are more dangerous to each other spreading decieases than rats
@murhafalsafadi1616
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
that lambo at 3:21 tho 👀
@shaked2441
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Who's here because of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
@cachalotreal
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
I love the background music, it sounds so outgoing and energetic but the instruments and how they were played made it feel like, idk, 1950s or 1960s. I just like it and it matches with this man rambling
@kimmaddison8686
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
They eat rats on skewers in China town and new York there videos on you tube cooked rats
@kimmaddison8686
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Can u feed wild rat if the sewer is in your garden
@mouldyfart
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
no wonder rats always take advantage of me
@milefiori7694
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Meanwhile PETA: "Killing rats with poison is inhumane!"
@vincentcorroyer4836
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Connerie, et l'homme détruit la planète viol des gamines alléluia
@bostonsurfingmoviechannel6313
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
If only musicians could appreciate who stole their instruments more…to appreciate instruments, and governments of Europe…more.
@K200-m7h
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Rats are still animals. I always thought this, they only eat trash cause we took everything for them to eat so they have nothing else. They aren’t evil, their bacteria is just deadly to us, they don’t choose this, they are usually harmless and all animal species have evil exceptions, i love most rodents especially hamsters and bunny’s. I wish they were safe to be round:)
@RaccoonRepublic
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
I think he has spent so long studying rodents that he became one.
@camp7203
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
In Chinatown in Phila there are rats the size of pigs
@wx4426
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
👁
@darkside0094
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
u should simply allow feral cats to roam around the city. They'll get rid of rats for free.
@derekbuxton6626
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
NYC is just one big giant rats nest.
@baguetteetcheese4665
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Leave rats alone how about that
@phizzhead53
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Solution to rats get a good cat meow
@Iquey
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
New York needs to stop sending poop trains to the South, and stop mixing good with their garbage and start composting properly.
@franck4727
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
4:08 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant
@GodHasOffWhite
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
One of the main reasons I didn't enjoy visiting New York, it's filthy.
@NisseOhlsen
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Rats for the win !
@prinzatago
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Salmonella… Sam O'Nella… Academy… realization
@yahoopatel2513
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
We just need more cats.
@senorliamy17
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
I thought this was a medieval problem that was long dead, clearly not.
@juliesmith5567
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
All animals and rodents mainly rats are brainy like humans all born with one
@MesozoicMaiden
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Rats, were rats, were the rats!
@Zetds
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Him: "Here's a bag of food trash. Where'd it come from? Who knows."
Guy parked at the side of the road: *sweats profusely*
@melaniesitoy5006
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
How to eliminate rats?
Step 1: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle
Step 2: NEVER waste food
Step 3: Segregate trash
Step 4: Be clean
@mygills3050
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Breed pigeons that can digest rats. Simple!
@mygills3050
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
This is why whenever people design things, they need to not just brush away stuff with “we aren’t really looking at that right now” because eventually you will have to.
@williamlouie569
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
The rats just clean up after the New Yorkers.
@gooberclown
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
19 billion dollars in damage? Rats!
@Scotthalljr
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Animals dont transmit sickness that is not real
@ankurhalke139
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Don't think about india . We worship them
@ana007-viva
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
At my workplace there are A LOT of stray cats. I never seen a single rat around. They take care of them
@neda.cizi1
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
disgraceful.
@bradhart3787
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
I know the cost feeling tho … My rat problem has cost me upward of 2k in 3 months with a tore up home still plus clothes food ect. And not to mention traps , bullets and time … Might even be 1k a month idk I'm losing my mind over it tho
@nathancruz9172
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
I don’t like 🐀 from the sewers.
@antoniomv9444
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
This guy: you see what this rat is doing? Breathing! not cool, we must end this!
@markrobbin
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
You still found a way to blame Trump. Lol!
@kpophater
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Tarkov players taking notes
@nubiaaparicio4185
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
THIS IS WHY I SPRAY DETERGEN AND AMONIA
INSIDE MY TRASH BEFORE I PUT MY TRASH OUT.
THEN
I SWEEP MOP MY FLOORS EVERY NIGHT
THEN BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP I SPRAY EVERY CORNER OFMY HOUSE WITH AMONIA
IAM SUPER SUPER
SUPER CLEAN
@boskovski4202
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
its really not the rats fault, we took their land and now we are mad that they are infesting their own land.
@DamnYankee8
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
I didn't know there was such a thing as a ratologist, but if I'd known sooner I would have done things differently in college.
@ricky.t.1658
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Shut up, nobody likes you
@jagenv
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
“Rats are the lowliest and most despised of all creatures. If they have a purpose, so do we all.”
@thefishisraw117
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
Fun fact: if there wasn't any trash and sewers in the streets, rats wouldn't have had any diseases
@anactualfingbottleofranch747
May 2, 2026 at 1:42 am
0:43 g n a r l y d i s e a s e s
This is why I love you vox
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