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Another visitor, looks as big as the first, perhaps I haven't yet caught the smaller rat that was seen two days ago. This one appears to have approached things with caution, and having entered the trap climbed through a small grill hole and came at the trigger plate from an odd angle. Head & body about 20cm, tail about 17.5cm
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No mice, a howling gale, recycling blowing about ... and of course another rat. The reason for having the camera is to monitor the behaviour of animals around the trap, and here we see the rat pause before approaching the plastic container that is blowing about, then quickly sniff it on passing and then disappear. There is only a bit of cheese in the trap, not enough to entice the rat to investigate inside. The still photos are from half an hour earlier when this rat is first seen near the trap.
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No mice, a howling gale, recycling blowing about ... and of course another rat. The reason for having the camera is to monitor the behaviour of animals around the trap, and here we see the rat pause before approaching the plastic container that is blowing about, then quickly sniff it on passing and then disappear. There is only a bit of cheese in the trap, not enough to entice the rat to investigate inside. The still photos are from half an hour earlier when this rat is first seen near the trap.
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No mice, a howling gale, recycling blowing about ... and of course another rat. The reason for having the camera is to monitor the behaviour of animals around the trap, and here we see the rat pause before approaching the plastic container that is blowing about, then quickly sniff it on passing and then disappear. There is only a bit of cheese in the trap, not enough to entice the rat to investigate inside. The still photos are from half an hour earlier when this rat is first seen near the trap.
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No mice, a howling gale, recycling blowing about ... and of course another rat. The reason for having the camera is to monitor the behaviour of animals around the trap, and here we see the rat pause before approaching the plastic container that is blowing about, then quickly sniff it on passing and then disappear. There is only a bit of cheese in the trap, not enough to entice the rat to investigate inside. The still photos are from half an hour earlier when this rat is first seen near the trap.
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As the rat wasn't very interested in the trap yesterday, I added a bit of meat as bait. It certainly showed a lot of interest, but couldn't find the entrance! I suppose I need a little light over the entrance with a label in rattish. It spent a whole second paused looking at the wall, not sure what the interest was.
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A rather cautious rat, that took a lot of enticing with tit-bits in the entrance way and on the trigger plate, and ended up getting caught just at the edge of the trigger plate. The animated sequence shows the rat taking 20 minutes to foray into the trap entranceway before it finally decides to risk going in further. (5 sequences joined together with intervening absences omitted)
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A rather cautious rat, that took a lot of enticing with tit-bits in the entrance way and on the trigger plate, and ended up getting caught just at the edge of the trigger plate. The animated sequence shows the rat taking 20 minutes to foray into the trap entranceway before it finally decides to risk going in further. (5 sequences joined together with intervening absences omitted)
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Still haven't caught the black rat seen yesterday, and today yet another brown rat turns up.
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Still haven't caught the black rat seen yesterday, and today yet another brown rat turns up.
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Surprised that at the coldest point of the night the rat appears. Temperature about freezing, hail and snow, and camera playing up badly, crashing and loosing frames so things a bit jerky. Trap baited with cooked meat (kitchen scraps) and peanut butter, to allow for a variety of customer tastes. Rat enters the entrance chamber and steals a few morsels, but not enticed to trigger trap to get the main bait.
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Surprised that at the coldest point of the night the rat appears. Temperature about freezing, hail and snow, and camera playing up badly, crashing and loosing frames so things a bit jerky. Trap baited with cooked meat (kitchen scraps) and peanut butter, to allow for a variety of customer tastes. Rat enters the entrance chamber and steals a few morsels, but not enticed to trigger trap to get the main bait.
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Norway Rat in the Paris Sewers
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The larger of the two night time prowlers. Body about 20cm, tail to base about 19cm. In the infrared animation the rat enters the trap then there is an 8 second gap (that didn't get recorded) before the death rattle - probably eating bait in the entrance way and not moving enough to trigger the movement detection software.
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This guy has been eating my tomatoes and tripped the rat trap.
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Mojada porque estaba nadando.
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Rat caught in a DOC200 trap. 2 weeks between its first visit to trap and being caught (see 974739). Bait: Peanut butter. Female, body length aprox 20cm, tail 15cm, weight aprox 160gm. Second photo is from a monitoring infrared webcam and is the product of low light levels and slow shutter speeds - simultaneously showing the live rat, the trigged trap closing and the closed trap. see also 975015
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Rat caught in a DOC200 trap. 2 weeks between its first visit to trap and being caught (see 974739). Bait: Peanut butter. Female, body length aprox 20cm, tail 15cm, weight aprox 160gm. Second photo is from a monitoring infrared webcam and is the product of low light levels and slow shutter speeds - simultaneously showing the live rat, the trigged trap closing and the closed trap. see also 975015