In Chicago’s war on rats, it looks like feral cats either lack a certain killer instinct or they’re extremely picky eaters, according to a new study from Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute.
That’s probably a good thing for the cats.
Maureen Murray, a wildlife disease ecologist who heads up the institute’s Chicago Rat Project, led the research team. She undertook the study to get a better understanding of how free-roaming outdoor cats might be at risk for poisoning by anticoagulant rodenticides — the chemicals widely used to kill rats…