For big-time city rats, pigeons — not pizza — are prime street eats.
In August 2014, John Freund uploaded a video of a decidedly not adorable rat taking down one hapless pigeon in Williamsburg and then dragging its body into a bush.
Unlike its pizza-eating counterpart, this fowl-feasting rat reminds us that yes, rats are indeed disgusting and there is a reason why they survived the plague.
Watch the video, recently unearthed by Gawker, below. Resilience has never looked so disturbing: