Mary Bates, PhD

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Rats are Pollinators, Too

Brown rat. BlueBreezeWiki, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even city rats do it. I’m talking about pollination, of course. A new study shows that city rats eat the feijoa plant’s flowers and may end up pollinating the plants along the way.

Read more at my Animal Minds blog: Rats are Pollinators, Too.