{"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":"

They know ka-rat-e. <\/p>\n

A pair of kung-fu rats channeled their inner Bruce Lee \u2014 caught on video while fighting on a Brooklyn subway platform.<\/p>\n

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

The rats went at it for 44 straight seconds. Alligator-creep\/ Reddit<\/p>\n

The footage was shot on July 11 at the Grant Avenue Station in Brooklyn\u2019s Cypress Hills neighborhood.<\/p>\n

There were no turtles or green, radioactive goo at the scene. Alligator-creep\/ Reddit<\/p>\n

Rats are known to gently nip, bite and wrestle with each other or their mothers as a form of play fighting, according to PetMD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The website said such behaviors are healthy and normal, helping the rodents forge bonds and learn appropriate social cues. <\/p>\n

The acrobatic rats may actually have been playing. Alligator-creep\/ Reddit<\/p>\n

Typically, when rats fight for territory or food, they make extremely loud shrieks, hisses or squeaks, according to the Lafeber Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One Reddit user confirmed the rats were likely playing on the platform.<\/p>\n

\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…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,17106,105650,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7835,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-188726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bruce-lee","tag-kung-fu","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-rats","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","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}]}}