Ten weeks later, the rat was captured on another island. It had evaded traps, baits and sniffer dogs before swimming 400 meters across open sea to the neighboring island, according to news reports.
"Our findings confirm that eliminating a single invading rat is disproportionately difficult," James Russell and his colleagues said in a report in the science journal Nature.
Well, DUH..
Anyone that's ever lived in a large city already knew this. Hope the New Zealand government didn't foot the bill for this one.
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