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Wild Metropolis

Rats Use Their Skills to Become the Ultimate Urban Animal

Using a unique set of survival skills rats have become perhaps the ultimate urban animal.

Aired 10/16/2019 | Rating TV-PG

Wild Metropolis

Rats Use Their Skills to Become the Ultimate Urban Animal

Clip: Episode 3 | 1m 23sVideo has Closed Captions

Using a unique set of survival skills rats have become perhaps the ultimate urban animal.

With a unique set of skills and abilities rats have become possibly the ultimate urban animal, able to survive in the cracks of our cities with such ease that they now live with us on every continent of the world other than Antarctica.

Aired 10/16/2019 | Rating TV-PG

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