Massey researcher Idan Shapira is using lab rats as a lure to trap Norway rats, which have evaded other methods. Norway rats represent a major threat to New Zealand’s native fauna and flora.
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you’re welcome to come and collect the norway rat from our back yard – it [or its relative] burrowed a huge hole last year in our courtyard garden and now is determined to over-winter in our compost bin .. it laughs at traps!