{"id":206674,"date":"2025-02-18T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/lethal-second-generation-rat-poisons-are-killing-endangered-quolls-and-tasmanian-devils"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:15:48","slug":"lethal-second-generation-rat-poisons-are-killing-endangered-quolls-and-tasmanian-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/lethal-second-generation-rat-poisons-are-killing-endangered-quolls-and-tasmanian-devils","title":{"rendered":"Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lethal-second-generation-rat-poisons-are-killing-endangered-quolls-and-tasmanian-devils.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apvma.gov.au\/resources\/chemicals-news\/rodenticides\" target=\"_blank\">have produced<\/a> second generation anticoagulant rodenticides such as bromadiolone, widely used in Australian households.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, these potent poisons do not magically disappear after the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rodent\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rodent<\/a> is dead. For example, it\u2019s well known <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/owls\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">owls<\/a> who eat poisoned rodents suffer the same slow death from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/internal+bleeding\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">internal bleeding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our new research, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S004896972500467X\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science of The Total Environment<\/i>, shows the problem is much bigger than owls. We found Australia\u2019s five largest marsupial predators\u2014the four quoll species and the Tasmanian devil\u2014are getting hit by these poisons too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers have produced second generation anticoagulant rodenticides such as bromadiolone, widely used in Australian households. Unfortunately, these potent poisons do not magically disappear after the rodent is dead. For example, it\u2019s well known owls who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}