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Coronavirus: Why more rats are being spotted during quarantine7 April 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyrightAFP via Getty ImagesImage captionRobert Corrigan calls rats "masters of adaptation"The closure of restaurants and the retreat by humans indoors is having an effect on the eating habits and behaviour of rats, say experts.Late last month, the French Quarter in New Orleans had new swarms of visitors wandering its famous streets.Not long after the coronavirus closed bars and restaurants in the Louisiana city, rats were coming out of hiding.That more rodents were being spotted comes as no surprise to renowned urban rodentologist Robert Corrigan."When you have a colony of rats on a block that has been depending on tourists littering and lots of trash put out at night - it could be DC, it could be New York - anyplace where rats have been depending the easy handouts, and that disappears, then they don't know what to do," he says. As Claudia Riegel, …