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Jason Munshi-South

Baruch College

Jason Munshi-South appears in the following:

a large brown rat sits in a discarded cardboard box atop trash bags

Why Your Car is a Rat Haven

Thursday, January 18, 2024

What makes cars so hospitable to rats?

Rats of New York

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Are we just spinning our wheels in the war against rats, or is it possible to curb our city's most notorious vermin?

By conducting long-term monitoring studies of rats in New York, Dr. Munshi-South is uncovering new findings in the field of urban landscape genetics

What We Can Learn from the Rats of Manhattan

Thursday, August 14, 2014

A biology professor explains how trapping rats in Manhattan to analyze their DNA will help us understand how the rodents move around the city.

Please Explain: Urban Evolution

Friday, July 29, 2011

Jason Munshi-South, assistant professor at Baruch College, and Rob Dunn, associate professor of biology at North Carolina State University and author of The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today, discuss how cities and urban environments change the animals, insects—and even bacteria—that live within them. They’ll also cover how natural selection and evolution work and how they study it.