The first in-depth study of urban rats and rat-associated health risks in Canada.
Vancouver, Canada
Joined April 2012
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Urban rats continue to flourish in cities. An entrenched “war-on-rats” paradigm drives rat management, but in this @ncceh webinar, Michael J. Lee explores how reconceptualizing the problem as an unsolvable one, can change how cities approach management: tinyurl.com/fsawxhvw
ALT A screenshot of the opening slide of a YouTube video entitled "We don't need a better rat trap: Reconceptualizing municipal rat management" by Michael Lee, Environmental Epidemiologist, Environmental Health Service, BCCDC, originally broadcast on September 29, 2022. The logos of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Vancouver Rat Project, University of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver are also included. Photos in the background show 1. a rat peering out from a narrow crack in an urban setting and 2. rats on a stepladder in an abandoned building.
VancouverRatProject retweeted
We were happy to have Dr. Chelsea Himsworth and Dr. @kaylee_byers from the British Columbia Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative for our webinar on transdisciplinarity to talk about their work with urban rats: the Vancouver Rat Project.
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This is an excellent short video summary of the great work being done by @VanRatProject, @kaylee_byers, et al., covering the basic ecology & applied public/mental health aspects of urban rats. Now I need to squeeze this into our "pest" section of my Urban E&E course!
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VancouverRatProject retweeted
Spoiler alert: if you live in a city, you live with rats
@kaylee_byers's work is about managing rat population to limit health risks for humans in Vancouver
Check out this short entertaining and informative video about the @VanRatProject
Spoiler #2: rats in this video are cute
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Had so much fun collaborating with @VanRatProject and @kaylee_byers to condense 7 years (!) of research into a video. Some of the coolest interdisciplinary science around!
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Our new @VanRatProject study in collaboration with @HillLabSask revealed that #Vancouver rats and their fleas carry multiple species of Bartonella bacteria
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Yes there were including parks, empty lots and food gardens. Green spaces were also assessed in some of the environmental factors associated with carriage of zoonotic pathogens. For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2942…
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Rodents make up 43 per cent of all mammal species, and of these rodents, rats —thanks to their ability to exploit human environments — stand out as tenacious survivors.
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Remarkable image of cannibalism in rats 🐀. This likely contributes to the maintenance and spread of Capillaria hepatica, a liver worm (parasite) that can also infect people. Here’s a link to our @VanRatProject study on it
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The wars, battles & grisly remains of hunger-stressed city rats anywhere during Covid19. Here 6 + victims. Rats are also warriors. Bodies dragged off. Rodent killings (called Muricide) far less when food (garbage, other) remain abundant & stable. Pic:S.Durga @Standardpest 🐀🕵️♀️⚔️
VancouverRatProject retweeted
We're happy to have Dr. Chelsea Himsworth, UBC, back for our webinar on transdisciplinarity to talk about her work with urban rats: the Vancouver Rat Project. @VanRatProject
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A very interesting line of study - does repeated rat eradication efforts lead to more sickly rats?
Certainly, many of the rats in the @VanRatProject had severe disease including respiratory infections. Could this be a function of poor fitness?
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3085…
A worthwhile article and another reason pest management professionals (PMPs) should be working closely with urban ecologists.
Super rats or sickly rodents? Our war against urban rats could be leading to swift evolutionary changes theconversation.com/super-ra… via @ConversationUS
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Rats are popular in horror stories. But unlike ghosts and goblins, getting rid of them is more difficult than calling Ghostbusters. #UBC researcher Kaylee Byers explains what we've gotten wrong in our battle with these critters. bit.ly/32MT3aY
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Special issue on commensal #rodents from the Journal of Human-Wildlife Interactions with papers from @ucanr @OCVector @USDA @FordhamNYC @VanRatProject @BASF #pestmanagement #rodenticides #disease #genetics
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"As someone who has trapped more than 700 rats, I can tell you that this lack of information is partly because rats are notoriously difficult to study." trib.al/YMC4gn2
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Rat detective uses DNA to uncover how rats scurry around cities theconversation.com/rat-dete…
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Why scientists from @VanRatProject + @ubcspph are catching rats in downtown Vancouver — and what they've learned so far: bit.ly/2GReiiU via @globalnews
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It's not easy catching rats, but these scientists are doing it to learn more about a rat's impact on society.
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"Living with rats involves understanding the city as an ecosystem", writes Chelsea Himsworth of @VanRatProject and we strongly agree: theconversation.com/living-w…
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My look at the loathed and yet admirable urban wild rat, a pest we've created in our own image, feat. @rodentologist and @kaylee_byers theglobeandmail.com/canada/t…