As an ambassador for rats, it's never easy to win over the public. But Runa at the San Diego Zoo has been charged with teaching people the virtues of rats.
SAN DIEGO — As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. There’s that hairless tail, after all.
Wildlife contraband is concealed among vast numbers of shipping containers that annually leave Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and other African ports. Rats can spread disease like leptospirosis, which on rare occasions can lead to meningitis and cause the kidneys and liver to fail. Szott said rats often “get a bad rap,” but that it’s important to “consider our responsibility towards the wildlife around us and that we share the planet with.”
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