Dongting - China /  The residents living around Dongting , China’s 2nd largest lake,  have been smelling rats for the past two weeks, and finally found them to be in billions dwelling there.
All this started when Yangtze River got flooded in June 2007, and the water level rose in Dongting Lake, that runs along the river south of Wuhan in central China's Hunan Province
The flooding began flushing out rats from the holes around the lake, virtually triggering a rat race for higher ground, affecting at least 20 counties near Dongtin
Tan Lulu, who works for the international conservation group WWF, told National Geographic News from WWF's Hunan office in Changsha, that  "For the past week, the situation has been very serious," Farmers are using everything from poison to hammers—and even their bare hands—to kill this multitude of rats. She told,  "There are so many rats that you can kill three of them with one strike,"  adding that the banks of the lake are teeming with the dead bodies of rats.