Rats Are Disappearing From New York City — Scientists Shocked by What’s Already Hunting Them

New York Spent $32 Million Fighting Rats — Something in the Sky Did It for Free New York has spent around $32 million and even hired a full-time rat czar to fight its rats, and the population barely moved, because rats learn to dodge almost every trap and poison we invent. Then, in a handful of neighborhoods, the rats started disappearing on their own, and nobody could explain why. This is the story of what was really doing it: a quiet comeback of hawks, owls, and falcons hunting the city in shifts, from Pale Male, the famous red-tailed hawk of Fifth Avenue, to the silent-winged owls that work after dark. You'll learn why killing rats never worked, how fear alone can shrink a rat population, and how banning a single pesticide accidentally rebuilt a free pest-control system in the sky. #UrbanWildlife #NewYorkCity #BirdsOfPrey #Rats #Ecology #Wildlife