Another woman reportedly told Bravo that \u201crats were sunning themselves outside her screen door\u201d every day, forcing the woman to \u201cbang on the glass every morning just to leave the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
WATCH: Invasive species cost $1.3 trillion to world economy over nearly a half centuryNot just a Toronto problem<\/p>\n
While Toronto may be the \u201crattiest city in Canada,\u201d it\u2019s not the only one seeing a surge. Cities like Montreal, Ottawa<\/a>, and Vancouver are also experiencing more infestations\u2014something experts warn could become the new normal as climate patterns shift.<\/p>\n \u201cOttawa is dealing with this right now\u2026 I got a request for an interview from Radio Canada in Montreal. They\u2019re also looking at this,\u201d Bravo says. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a problem that\u2019s going to go away. It\u2019s a problem that\u2019s only going to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n To wit, a U.S.-based study published in early 2025<\/a> found \u201csignificant increasing trends in rat numbers\u201d in 11 of 16 major cities worldwide. Toronto came in at spot number three with a faster-growing rat problem than Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and even New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIncreasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization, and human population,\u201d declare the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n \u201cWarming temperatures and more people living in cities may be expanding the seasonal activity periods and food availability for urban rats. Cities will have to integrate the biological impacts of these variables into future management strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another woman reportedly told Bravo that \u201crats were sunning themselves outside her screen door\u201d every day, forcing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2837,49,48,6093,295,66],"class_list":["post-30340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-animals","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}