[Noisebridge-discuss] The rats are getting ballsy

[Joel Jaeggli]

jim wrote:
> +1 for UV light rat-tracing. anybody know how 
> to get a UV light? 

frys has several variants, both wired and as flashlights.

> 
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:34 -0800, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
>> FWIW, I did some reading on the subject, and there is clear evidence
>> that rats are most active just before dawn and late at night, when
>> people are not around.
>>
>> However, if rats are seen to be active when things are lit up, when
>> people are around, and engaging in risky behavior to get food, this is
>> a pretty good sign of a rat population explosion (not them getting
>> more ballsy). They are driven to riskier behavior due to greater
>> competition for food. This situation also makes them more aggressive.
>>
>> So chances are that there are a *lot* more rats moving around the
>> space late at night than we are aware of.
>>
>> Apparently UV light shows up traces of rat urine, and shows where
>> they've been. Might be an interesting experiment.
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