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Thread: Decades of 1080….before and after

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  1. 05-09-2022, 10:55 PM #1
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    Not sure if this website still rxists but try googleing rat irruptions. Or www.1080science.co.nz
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woody View Post
    Not sure if this website still rxists but try googleing rat irruptions. Or www.1080science.co.nz
    Yip I googled ship rat irruptions and came up with this https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets...al/casn318.pdf

    I couldnt find anywhere in that paper where it says 1080 can cause ship rat irruptions. What I did find is that they are caused by food supply .
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    Quote Originally Posted by sore head stoat View Post
    Yip I googled ship rat irruptions and came up with this https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets...al/casn318.pdf

    I couldnt find anywhere in that paper where it says 1080 can cause ship rat irruptions. What I did find is that they are caused by food supply .
    In other words aerially poisoning enhances rats food supply. Very clever eh. (Then they breed to higher numbers than pre poison drop ay
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woody View Post
    In other words aerially poisoning enhances rats food supply. Very clever eh. (Then they breed to higher numbers than pre poison drop ay

    No mast years enhance the food supply, then the rats breed like buggery.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sore head stoat View Post
    No mast years enhance the food supply, then the rats breed like buggery.
    It's a little more complicated than that, as different species 'mast' at different times. The 'mega mast' events they keep going on about I am told come about through multiple species going to seed one after the other. Knocking competition out of the running helps the rats, but also multiple litters throughout a year with warm temps and ample food just explodes things more. Rats are capable of reproducting at around the 10-weeks mark, gestation of 3 weeks and rinse and repeat. Efficient...
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    Quote Originally Posted by No.3 View Post
    It's a little more complicated than that, as different species 'mast' at different times. The 'mega mast' events they keep going on about I am told come about through multiple species going to seed one after the other. Knocking competition out of the running helps the rats, but also multiple litters throughout a year with warm temps and ample food just explodes things more. Rats are capable of reproducting at around the 10-weeks mark, gestation of 3 weeks and rinse and repeat. Efficient...
    It may be a "little" more complicated than that but it is basically that.. rats breed like buggery when there is truck loads of feed.
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