Urban rats - The unknown residents of the underworld | DW Documentary

[@kated3165]

Domesticated rats are basically tiny dogs if properly socialized in their first weeks of life! They love you with the same intensity, bordering obsession at times. The downside is they can literally become deeply depressed if you leave for a trip... their health and lifespans are also terrible!! Imagine your dogs dying every 2-3 years... they truly are "the heartbreak pet".

[@NonBinary_Star]

😊awe... this is such a happy and sad post♥️💔

[@RM360CR]

In many latin countries there are typically no rats problems because of stray dogs and cats only in europe you always had this problem because you kill all wild life predators or dont have any stray dog..

[@dammitdan106]

Willard.

[@scubaguy5389]

i had them, super smart and cleaner than most people think.

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

@@dammitdan106 Ben.✌🏼😊

[@rsharma6716]

cats are officially boycotting this documentary

[@ingridseim1379]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@striker44]

Cats are glued to the TV.

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

😂👌

[@psikeyhackr6914]

@@rsharma6716 I saw a video that claimed to be of a rat and a cat in Paris. The rat was chasing the wimpy French cat. They must have imported a rat from New York or they dug a tunnel.

[@julsan2918]

😂😂😂 Felines 🐈

[@MarshaAnne01485]

Never once in my life I'd hated rats

[@tw8464]

So thankful for the scientists and researchers finally getting to the bottom of the rat issue. Good for humanity to finally figure this whole rat thing out.

[@GrandmaBev64]

I've got rats and they are driving me crazy. They sound like I have rude, loud, upstairs neighbors. I don't want to kill anything. I have bears, chipmunks, hummingbirds, bluejays, quale, rats, mice, rabbits, crows, blackbirds, and many migrating birds. Too much wildlife to poison anything and I don't want dead animals in my walls. Thank You for this video. We used to have a pet rat and he was a pretty smart and cool pet. I can't hurt them.

[@lynnewilliams6659]

Hi. It's "quail," not quale. Blessings.

[@edouardbeaudry4837]

As someone who lives in Vancouver, I wish you mentioned that the rat population in the downtown East side are extraordinarily unafraid of people, especially at night. Otherwise, great documentary!

[@Kunfucious577]

I feel bad for rats and opossums. People are very cruel to these animals.

[@boxbury]

Does it make you cry to sleep at night?

[@Roly679]

Thank you for bringing us this video. As a landlord I've tried numerous sonic sounders and poisons over the years. The best approach is education through asking tenants to use the food waste bins that the local council freely supply.

[@ronamain8689]

Feral cats. Obviously you don't have them.

[@alansmitheejr-g2q]

There's probably a rat within 50 metres of you at all times no matter where you are.

[@iii___iii]

😱🤯

[@souravjaiswal-jr4bj]

Less so if you have a cat nearby. 🐈‍⬛️ -> 🐀☠️

[@TheStockwell]

Really? Not when I'm in a rowboat on a lake in northern Vermont. Unless they're using scuba gear or their own itty-bitty rowboats. In that case, my respect for them would be enormous. 🐀

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@TheStockwell Gee thanks. I was really puzzled why there were so many millions of people in rowboats in northern vermont, and no northern vermont lakes are less than 100 metres across.

[@oneshothunter9877]

I live in Greenland. No rats within many hundreds if not thousands of kilometers.

[@veronicaramirez9729]

Open our eyes to the things we been trying to ignore as a society is certainly the right path to improve how we live and let other living beings exist

[@L1mepanda]

I really hope that we continue to learn more about these beautiful little creatures. ❤ They deserve to be known.

[@ingridseim1379]

Lol, you've never seen someone with hanta virus...

[@justayoutuber1906]

How can rats not be studied? They are in nearly every lab in the world for testing.

[@L1mepanda]

Because they're not looking at natural behaviours with lab rats, they're used for a different purpose. Testing.

[@shaungordon9737]

Mice are not rats

[@00alexander1415]

In a human environment.

[@SalmonPenny]

well what do they expect? That we start seeing rats like city pigeons? That's unrealistic. Pigeons don't bite, they don't steal, they don't invade your home and destroy property, they don't bite holes in your walls, they don't sneak around in the dark. There are so many reasons why rats are undesirable. It's not just mindless hate brought forth by culture

[@binkwillans5138]

That's why we have to learn to understand our relationship with them. They won't disappear just to suit you.

[@zs3137]

Another great documentary, thank you DW 🙏

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It is a wonderful documentary about 🐀 rat's in urban areas through scientific prospectives

[@utube658]

GREAT DOCUMENTARY!!!

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for your comment!

[@muhammadakram4303]

An interesting and informative documentary.❤❤❤😊

[@farsalami8605]

what did you learn?

[@JunGaCan]

It’s difficult to co-exist with rats as they’re carrier of Leptospirosis.

[@diesel_dawg]

"REMY"! THE RAT'S NAME IS "REMY"! 'RATATOUILLE' IS THE NAME OF THE MOVIE!

[@somerandomfella]

Seems like they have better traits than humans, preferring to help those in need before rewards.

[@farsalami8605]

You must be a terrible person. Btw rats are way crueler than humans..... DW won't mention those lol

[@rjc63]

Yes, people never do that. Imagine saying a rat has better traits than humans. good heavens.

[@jessicapatton2688]

I heard when they get over populated and live in bad conditions there’s a “behavioral sink” the guy called it. Basically unsavory behavior when there’s overpopulations of them.

[@tyiffpeijc8702]

huh! I wonder if people experience this as well lol

[@GloryDaze73]

Sounds a bit like humans

[@jessicapatton2688]

@@GloryDaze73 very much so actually

[@simonk5571]

I was literally thinking the other day when I saw a picture of a captured huge rat that humans might as well domestic it.

[@troylee4196]

I thought they were prized pets in the 19th century

[@deeppen8084]

This video is rewire my thought about rat, thank you for the insight

[@yawdesmond9564]

Addicts of DW, hit the like button ❤

[@DWDocumentary]

We smashed that button! 😄

[@yawdesmond9564]

😅​@@DWDocumentary

[@SokunYim]

Yes, I'm a big fan of DW. 😁

[@robbob1866]

That "Three Blind Rats!" illustration was by Rube Goldberg! Did anyone else see that? I'm sure he made an over elaborate rat catching Rube Goldberg machine cartoon at some point. At this point I'm also wondering if they mention that the province of Alberta is the only rat free place in the world?

[@JoelReid]

Cities are ecosystems, with animals and plants. We created a world where our ecosystems sustain a vast biota of living things. We will never be rid of animals and plants in our city ecosystems. Remove the rats, and something worse may replace it.

[@lynnewilliams6659]

Sheer B.S.

[@JoelReid]

@@lynnewilliams6659 yeah, it is brilliant stuff. i agree.

[@tg4481]

I love rats.... they are smart and very affectionate

[@JackTorrance-qd9up]

I had many pet rats . At age 22 I did something pretty stupid. Don't ever get drunk and attempt to place a rat in your mouth , Well it latched on to my tongue. 48 hours later I became very ill 48 hours longer and my body was covered with what looked like chicken pox. I was never sicker Being puppy sick and hallucinating I went to the E.R. The Doctor said I had rheumatic fever and hauntra virus both He compared it to plague. He could not explain the bumps . Well I'm 55 now and never been ill since then , really no flu no colds nothing.coronavirus had nothing on my immune system.

[@lil----lil]

They're anything but unknown. There isn't a single resident who doesn't know about them.

[@johnknowles4131]

Knows what about them? That they’re there?

[@ingridseim1379]

Yeah. Domesticated rats are different that the rats that run wild.

[@johnknowles4131]

Not really

[@willshedo]

38:55 this is all one needs to know for rsuccessful at management. The more food we throw away or leave accessible somewhere, the more rats we produce. (Yes, WE .) When a society learns to adequately manage their food waste, managing rats comes included as an additional benefit.

[@Atheist-Pinar]

💝Greetings from The Netherlands Love Chanel DW Documentary💕

[@Yyaammzz]

They’re kinda cute though

[@jithutjohnny4013]

DW, Kindly include official English subtitles.

[@TheStockwell]

Kindly use the CC option.

[@richagupta3442]

😂😂

[@lamecasuelas2]

7:30 oh my god, her voice ❤❤❤❤

[@davidhudson5452]

No poison rat traps work

[@VasiliTimonen]

We have badgers on our land, and we get them to come around the house by dumping waste food out of the kitchen window. That means we never see a rat. A badger is a rat's worst nightmare.

[@LostinAlberta]

They’re every where….except in the Canadian province of Alberta. We are considered rat free. Google why. It’s a beautiful thing.

[@ivocyrillo]

Very good documentary. Best only by Ratatouille.

[@nadiaborges.]

😂

[@prophecyrat2965]

Thanks❤️🐀

[@1000wastedwords]

Forget Ratatouille. What about Rats of Nihm, An American Tail, and Rescuers Down Under? Way better imho

[@ronitamanap3332]

where is the cats

[@deepblue188]

I am a cat!

[@prettynoose888]

Cats must be kept indoors!!!

[@BabblingBubbles01]

NO WAY THAT FIRST RAT IS ONLY 2 WEEKS OLD! 2 WEEKS THEY STILL DONT HAVE FUR AND EYES CLOSED

[@susanb4816]

There were no rats in north america pre-columbus so the statement “where there are people there have always been rats” is very inaccurate. Rats did not begin to coexist until agriculture and sedentary living

[@suzannederringer1607]

They used to have municipal Rat-catchers in Europe. I lived most of my adult life in Manhattan. Rats everywhere. Scurrying around Subways. We just coexisted. As long as they weren't in our Apartments!

[@nneichan9353]

A lot of people own rats as pets. How different are the wild rats from pet rats? My sister loved her rats.

[@Maulfurion]

They're never pets, stuck, get used to basic paterns of feeding and safety, act as pets.

[@kated3165]

They won't be nearly as good pets as the domesticated ones! Domestication is a long-term selection of the traits we prefer in pets. Wild rats will remain very skittish and high-strung. They will be able to bond and love their owner the same, and will have many of the same base qualities... but they will be overall harder to own and handle.

[@ingridseim1379]

Pet rats, called "fancy rats," come from ancient Japan and are not the same as wild rats. Wild ones carry diseases like hanta virus. And never forget that bubonic plague and the Black Death were spread around the world by rats. Google that. 🫂

[@Javy_Valen_Tain]

They are Gods in India.

[@troylee4196]

What isn't?

[@Average_Drone]

Not exactly. They are considered family and children, not “gods”

[@oldschool8432]

I wonder if rats an mice get along together

[@dammitdan106]

From Rattenkrieg to Ratatouille.

[@zax1998LU]

The title is so Skaven coded

[@terranowa2080]

We don't know a lot about the reality we live in, rats appear in closed cupboards. How do they get there

[@dumuzidtherisingphoenix]

Food waste regulation? How?

[@thelaugh-latent]

My hometown ❤ Varanasi

[@chibha96]

I think this documentary makes me feel like watching Disney Ratatouille animated movie 😂. Also I think of the Rat Race mentality - Rats get all things such as eat, sleep, mate and survive with hyperactivity.

[@ronamain8689]

Rats do not "choose to help " .. they'll eat dead mates. I have no idea how these people got financial grants for studies!

[@fountainneer]

I'm eating right now I'll watch this later

[@trixuposter7388]

no data, only talk, where are resources of documentry, too many areas in one fim

[@diturielala7155]

Not kill them please they are most cosmopolitan creature which live in harmony with human creatures,the are used abused and killed without asking twice

[@joependleton6293]

A creature led by its nose, what's their favourite meal? What do they look for? 🐭 a world beneath our feet!

[@menglish83]

Terribly misleading video. Rats are not just some clever, innocent, misunderstood specter that humans irrationally fear. Rats disgust people because they reproduce incredibly fast becoming immediately overwhelming, they are very unsanitary covered in and spreading their own waste, and the destruction they cause is devastating. I feel like you must not have ever experienced the anxiety of failing to deter rats that have affected your life if you can ignore all that to have the attitude presented in this video. "Rats may not be as much of a plague-spreader as we think" and "poison is not a solution" are not reasons to try to coexist with rats.

[@pkkigathi]

Ratatouille brought me here

[@franwalsh9297]

The most interesting item I got from your channel was the small population Had a lot of decides and the large population has little or no decides. What I took from that the rat population control's it self Fran Walsh

[@kewsiyehboah9514]

Jeeez - Louise.. Between 21 - 24 Days.. Pregnancy.. If Humans are ( 36 Weeks ) Can Say ( 8 ) Billion Population.. A Billion in China alone.. Worldwide My Guess ( 40 - 60 ) Billion..

[@ErnestoSun]

Our ancestors. Survived the comet. Throwing away non-empty packaging feeds them. I never do.

[@ebrimadem5287]

Dw i wish you could do a documentary on Gaza, your documentaries are amazing

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

Yes ruts always will be next to humans.Its better keep cline around us ,that's will be best solution.

[@RJFP67]

Higher than India’s rat problem ?

[@life-mn5qf]

They are the urban ecosystem heroes

[@QuintusAntonious]

Imagine being a scientist and working for "Project Armageddon" and then explaining to everyone you aren't researching the end of the world, but actually rats. It goes from ominous to really ominous.

[@lovescherylblossom3441]

Exactly!

[@AHLDN]

The dislikes was from cats. A bunch of Tom's don't like the Jerry's

[@richardhart9204]

Many years ago, I used to keep pigeons, and, before I sealed it properly, rats would enter the coup at night, and kill the squabs (baby pigeons) without eating them. I have ZERO sympathy rats.

[@ronnielaforge8039]

Rat lung disease is real

[@iii___iii]

🐀🐁🐀🐁

[@natalia001]

Urban rats, one of the cleanest and smartest animals, ever!

[@stephaniehernandez7209]

ratatouille

[@sar4806]

Ratty!

[@losbexp]

Immigration and rat management have some similar trends, i think. Rats go where there is food. People go where they can live better. Basically, the same thing applies to all animals. Everything is just trying to survive in this shit show, and rats are not the only ones.

[@duncanbauer1618]

Willard trained Ben really well.Ben became an assassin!

[@eileenspamer-kw3kz]

i have 2 tame pet mice girls so cute and funny housebound uk granny

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Cameras + AI + LASERs = No Rats

[@binkwillans5138]

Naive.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

@@binkwillans5138 What do you mean the AI cannot tell a rat from a squirrel from a rabbit? It just takes another 10 million hours of training. LOL

[@sentryogmixmaster]

this video is sponsored by the mob. they are always looking for ways to spot a rat. 🐀

[@amandant]

Rat and cockroach my neighbor

[@adnanubi]

What if these Rats 🐀🐀 make an Argument that they are God's chosen Rats and they have right to live in any home or apartment they want I mean is there any valid Counter at least I don't see one

[@topspelerharbit]

rats are cute

[@rojithraja5267]

Leftism

[@leponpon6935]

Rat war.

[@OriginalGaPeach]

WHO loves rats???

[@zeth609]

I do

[@farsalami8605]

@@zeth609 Get yourself treated lol

[@zombiebullshark3834]

If they only grew some hair on that nasty tail 😬

[@TheStockwell]

Then they'd be squirrels. The other day, I caught a squirrel and shaved its tail. Suddenly, it was a rat! 😳 🐿️ + 🪒 = 🐀 !

[@zombiebullshark3834]

@@TheStockwell no no, squirrel plus hammer equals dead, not rat 😂

[@lynnewilliams6659]

Get lots and lots of cats.

[@etaokha4164]

Ratatouille. In Africa they won't survive 😂😂😂

[@RM360CR]

Sometimes anglo europeans can be so freaking weird strange on how you view of the world you are always trying to understand thing that in the end dont make sense or for what purpose and in the end you make all the wrong choices..

[@shirleyrice7093]

I saw a black rat in my neighborhood in Thailand.

[@Pou1gie1]

@29:17 The sign in this artist illustration depicts the Parisiennes being sold dogs and cats to be eaten (look at the sign's wording). This is interesting because Europeans are always chiding other groups for eating horse, dogs, cats, etc. But they did this too!

[@1Naturalscene]

Ok

[@hourbee5535]

Whataboutpalestinefreedom?

[@TheStockwell]

What about stupid and irrelevant trolling with lame-ass Whataboutism? Also, what about putting spaces between words? 🤔

[@everygoodthing8506]

There's no place called Palestine, even the Quran never mentions it once.

[@T1kr3b3u]

@@everygoodthing8506 The romans mentioned it more than they did Israel

[@JunGaCan]

It’s difficult to co-exist with rats as they’re carrier of Leptospirosis.

[@misterfunnybones]

ratatouille

[@melodiemothapo3718]

lol the comment i was looking for