And yet another “big creature” edition of MonsterQuest. This season has been loaded with episodes featuring quests for large versions of various animals, whether it be snakes or pigs. I just can’t get into any of them. It just seems like a silly, pointless thing to look for.
After seeing the problems the team had with getting a camera mounted to a wild hog, I was utterly shocked when they said they were going to try to attach one to a little rat. I couldn’t help but think “you’ve got to be kidding me.”
I think it’s time to find another toilet to use.
Sure enough, they had the same problem as with they initially did with the hog; the camera and battery pack were too big for the animal selected. Here, it wasn’t the size of the camera so much as it was a problem with the battery pack size. The poor rat didn’t look like he could even get onto his feet with that unit strapped onto his back.
Their “solution” was to tether the rat so the battery pack wouldn’t be a problem. Apparently these “experts” suffered from amnesia and lost all knowledge of rat behavior. There’s no way a rat will be tethered like that. Either the thing will get pulled off, or the rat will slink his way through every piece of trash and dumpster and get the line all tangled up. What were they thinking? They might as well have gotten some grade-schoolers to do this.
Are there super rats in New York? I seriously doubt it. Some of the rats some of these witnesses seemed to describe were the size of medium-sized dogs. I didn’t find these witnesses to be particularly credible. Frankly, I agreed with the skeptic shown in the episode… New Yorkers (and people from other big cities) have a tendency to exaggerate things.
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