Rat Eradication on South Georgia Island (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

History, Education

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Humans and rats have lived in an uneasy relationship for millennia. Rats have spread diseases like the bubonic plague, destroyed grain harvests, and stolen our pizzas. In return, rats have given humans……pretty much nothing. As such, humans have waged a relentless war against rats, which for the most part has gone nowhere. However, there are some fronts where we have had amazing success. Learn more about humanity’s war on rats on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Expedition Unknown Find out the truth behind popular, bizarre legends. Expedition Unknown, a podcast from Discovery, chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates unsolved iconic stories across the globe. With direct audio from the hit TV show, you’ll hear Gates explore stories like the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in the South Pacific and the location of Captain Morgan's treasure in Panama. These authentic, roughshod journeys help Gates separate fact from fiction and learn the truth behind these compelling stories. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of everything everywhere daily.
0:04.0	Humans and rats have lived in an uneasy relationship for millennia.
0:11.0	Rats have spread diseases like the Bubonic Plague, destroyed grain
0:14.6	harvest, and stolen our pizzas. In return, rats have given humans, well, pretty much
0:19.9	nothing. As such, humans have waged a relentless war against rats, which for the most part has gone nowhere.
0:27.0	However, there are some fronts where we have had some amazing success.
0:31.0	Learn more about humanity's war on Rats on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The history of rats and humans goes back to the beginning of agriculture.
0:56.0	The rats which most humans are familiar with are the black rat or the ship rat which came from India,
1:01.0	and the brown rat or the Norwegian rat, which oddly from India, and the brown rat, or the Norwegian rat, which, oddly enough, didn't come from Norway, but somewhere else in continental Europe.
1:07.0	Prior to the rise of agriculture, there was nothing special about the rat human relationship.
1:12.0	Rats were like other rodents that lived in the wild.
1:14.9	There were opportunistic eaters and were preyed on by larger carnivorous mammals and birds.
1:19.5	With the rise of agriculture, rats found a brand new almost unlimited food source, grain. Humans
1:26.5	produced tons of grain and all the rats had to do was hang around humans and
1:30.4	they could get almost unlimited food.
1:33.0	Rats are omnivorous, which means they can eat almost anything.
1:36.0	Grain, fruit, meat, insects, and other rats are all on the menu.
1:41.0	Almost immediately, this caused problems for humans. Many early farmers had
1:45.8	their entire crops wiped out due to infestations of rats. It's widely believed
1:50.1	that the rats attraction to human settlements was one of the major reasons for the domestication of cats.
1:55.0	As rats came for our food, the cats came for the rats.
1:58.0	But that's a topic for another episode.
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