CHICAGO (WLS) While most of us are familiar with rats, another version of rodent is unexpectedly increasing in numbers and captivating residents of the Chicago area during the pandemic: beavers.
Most city dwellers are used to seeing rats, and the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation even said there have been an increase in calls requesting rodent abatement in 2020.
But as the
Chicago Tribune first reported, beavers often went unnoticed until the COVID-19 pandemic brought everything to a standstill. I don t know if you ever saw a beaver, but you are not expecting them, they just look like a big rodent, said Zach Selch of Evanston.