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Rats Use Their Skills to Become the Ultimate Urban Animal

Season 1 Episode 3 | 1m 23s

With a unique set of skills and abilities rats have become possibly the ultimate urban animal, able to survive in the cracks of our cities with such ease that they now live with us on every continent of the world other than Antarctica.

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