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A plan is underway to wipe out the abundant life of rats on Rat Island, a 6,800-acre island on the western edge of the Aleutian Islands that trail off from Alaska. It's because the rats have driven away all the birds. Well, not so much driven away as eating their eggs, which is all the incentive the birds needed to stop visiting the rat paradise. The first rats, including the muscular Norway rat, landed on the island in 1780 when a rat-infested Japanese ship ran aground. Since then rats, who are fantastic at making baby rats, have ruled the roost on the island. Thus, its name. Now there are no song birds or sea birds on the island. So there is a multi-pronged attack by state and federal authorities to kill the rats on the island and prevent new ones from arriving. As far as I know, neither PETA nor any other group is rising to defend the noble rat. Why is that? Posted by Steve E. Swenson

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