I know most of you know that James Audubon drew rats along with all the other animals and flowers he did...In fact as he studied rats, he moved naturally to New York City. He even wrote the mayor and got special permission to shoot rats on Sunday mornings down by the Battery.
The funny thing about them rats is that the more you kill them...shooting them but mostly poisoning them -the higher their pregnancy rates climb. Their pregnancy rate is always about what it is with humans...In fact they say now that coincidentally there are five times as many children in Iraq than in the entire United States.
Later on Audubon's eyesight failed and he moved up to 157th street, which is now settled by people from the Dominican Republic...which is coincidently also the home of Audubon himself.
these are all ink watercolor rives bfk 11x15
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