Mysterious Rat-Eating Creature
Finally Identified After Living
In The Bronx For Months
Allan Smith
BusinessInsider.com
An odd creature spotted by Bronx residents numerous times over the past few months around the Morris Heights neighborhood has finally been identified.
The animal in question, which was first spotted in April by an NYPD officer, is a male fisher, a member of the weasel family that hunts rats and has never been reported in New York City before.
Fishers are known to live throughout upstate New York in the Adirondacks, Dr. Roland Kays of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences told CBS New York, adding that the animal's apparent adaptation to an urban environment caused it to travel down the Hudson River and into the city.
"They're learning how to cross roads," he said. "They're learning how to survive right underneath our noses."
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