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Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist

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A resident sitting outside their home in the Bering Sea reported seeing a rat on St. Paul Island , Alaska .

Wildlife officials are looking for tracks, chew marks or droppings.

They baited traps with peanut butter and set up trail cameras to capture any confirmation of the rat’s existence.

The Pribilof Islands are sometimes called the “Galapagos of the north ” for its diversity of life.

The island was eerily silent compared with the cacophony of other, rat-free islands.

Since the eradication of rats, researchers have found native birds benefiting, even documenting species thought to have been wiped out by rats.

The island is once again known by the name originally bestowed by the Unangan people native to the Aleutians .

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