Do you see more Rats or Rabbits?

I swear I see more rabbits than rats. I see rabbits living in bushes on traffic islands and in smallish green corners of parking lots. The thinnest most obscure strips of green will have a rabbit. This seems 'newish' to me, as in more rabbits in the last couple years. I know this is highly anecdotal, still. Rats will eat baby rabbits right? So how are rabbit population numbers going up?

I do wonder when a urban 'Watership Down' moment will occur and the rats and the rabbits will square up and settle it in strange pitched battles.

Alas H/

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on June 5, 2013 at 10:44am

I see lots of squirrels and some rabbits along the lake, and more rats a block or so inland. There is a coyote living by the lake at Loyola. I've seen it in Berger Park a few times after dark and this morning it was lounging in the grass at the south end of the campus.