Chicago's viral 'rat hole' wasn't a rat
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Torro is living his best life. The former lab rat, a snowy white albino with red eyes, is blossoming in the hands of self-proclaimed rat lover Nicole Ochart. She
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The ‘Chicago rat hole’ sparked internet fervor in 2024. Now, scientists have found the culprit
Eastern grey squirrels are more common in Chicago than muskrats or fox squirrels, which led the team to determine there’s a 98.67% likelihood that the rat hole was actually a squirrel hole, and a 50.67% chance it was, more specifically, an Eastern grey squirrel hole.