{"id":188726,"date":"2025-08-31T04:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188726\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:51:18","slug":"acrobatic-ninja-rats-caught-on-subway-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188726\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrobatic ninja rats caught on subway platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They know ka-rat-e. <\/p>\n<p>A pair of kung-fu rats channeled their inner Bruce Lee \u2014 caught on video while fighting on a Brooklyn subway platform.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a minute, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle wannabes leapt into the air, flipping over onto their backs, and delivering airborne blows \u2014 all to the delight of the women behind the lens.<\/p>\n<p>The rats went at it for 44 straight seconds. Alligator-creep\/ Reddit<\/p>\n<p>The footage was shot on July 11 at the Grant Avenue Station in Brooklyn\u2019s Cypress Hills neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>There were no turtles or green, radioactive goo at the scene. Alligator-creep\/ Reddit<\/p>\n<p>Rats are known to gently nip, bite and wrestle with each other or their mothers as a form of play fighting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petmd.com\/exotic\/10-pet-rat-behaviors-and-what-they-mean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to PetMD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The website said such behaviors are healthy and normal, helping the rodents forge bonds and learn appropriate social cues. <\/p>\n<p>The acrobatic rats may actually have been playing. Alligator-creep\/ Reddit<\/p>\n<p>Typically, when rats fight for territory or food, they make extremely loud shrieks, hisses or squeaks, <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/why-rats-fight-and-what-to-do-when-it-happens\/?srsltid=AfmBOop1kBmNfiXxVn6CWWw2loBj4ylmIi-9uXxVBktv40D5MW3xXYOG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Lafeber Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One Reddit user confirmed the rats were likely playing on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they were fighting, they\u2019d be using their incredibly sharp teeth, and there would be missing eyeballs and entrails hanging out of their abdomens,\u201d the Redditor wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They know ka-rat-e. A pair of kung-fu rats channeled their inner Bruce Lee \u2014 caught on video while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,17106,105650,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7835,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-188726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bruce-lee","10":"tag-kung-fu","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-rats","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115121585092055651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}