Hawks and falcons hunt by day and owls typically.
Roof rat natural predators.
Roof rats have many natural predators including.
Birds of prey are famous for feeding on rodents.
Snakes represent another type of animal that are natural enemies and predators of rats.
Their undersides are often white gray or black.
Adult roof rats measure 6 8 16 20 cm when combining their head and body length.
Keeping roof rats out is therefore a difficult task.
Predators are poor and temporary controls.
Roof rats are long and thin rodents that have large eyes and ears a pointed nose and a scaly tail.
Certain types of larger snakes prey on adult rats.
5 natural predators of the rat 1.
Snakes birds of prey dogs cats coyotes owls other rats.
Roof rats have soft and smooth fur that is typically brown with intermixed spots of black.
Natural predators such as foxes snakes birds kill only a small number of rats per year usually the weak individuals which strengthens the gene pool of the rats.
Domestic cats are actually more mouse predators than rat predators but some will take on a rat.