NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A New York man who filmed a rat dragging a dead comrade through a subway station offered a theory on the situation: Pizza Rat has turned to "cannibalism."

The video, posted to YouTube by user JB Jose, shows a rat dragging a fallen colleague down the stairs and across the platform at the Jay Street-Metrotech station.


The uploader joked that the rat doing the dragging was Pizza Rat, a rat made famous in September 2015 by a video showing it dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of stairs at a subway station.

He wrote that Pizza Rat had apparently turned to cannibalism.

"A little before midnight on Jan 2, 2016 at Jay St-Metrotech, Pizza Rat emerges from the darkness to retrieve his fallen comrade. Was it trying to the 'wake up' the other? Was it taking it away to eat? Will we ever know?" he wrote.

Jose said in an email to Gothamist bystanders were fascinated by the spectacle.