The New York City subway tunnels are home to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of rats, a big portion of whom needed to find higher ground when Hurricane Sandy slammed into downtown Manhattan earlier this week. After miles of subway tunnels flooded during the storm, many expected the rats to appear on the city’s streets. After all, they’re great swimmers. They could just follow the water up to the surface, right? By most accounts of what really happened to the rats, that’s wrong. They rats did not show up on the surface or anywhere else. Why not? Because they’re dead.Read the rest over at Motherboard.
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