Alberta's Rat-Free Status in Question After Dead Rat Found in Bowden
The Canadian province has been officially rat-free for more than 70 years, but the discovery has prompted the provincial 'rat patrol' to investigate, according to the Guardian.
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Alberta's decades-long status as a rat-free province was called into question this week after the town of Bowden announced the discovery of a dead rat, according to the Guardian.
For more than seven decades, Alberta has shared an official rat-free status with Antarctica and the high Arctic, the Guardian reported.
The province's "rat patrol" has been called in to investigate the discovery, according to the report. Further details on how the rat reached Bowden, or on the patrol's findings, were not included in the available report.
Sources
- Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat — The Guardian — World
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