Rats

OH RATS! Hamelin, Germany, Once Again Faces Rat Infestation Years After Pied Piper Split

AP | Posted 05.25.2012

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BERLIN -- The German city of Hamelin may be in need of another Pied Piper – it seems the rats are back. City officials say a popular fountain h...

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Rodent Study Yields Surprise About 'Success' Of Rats, Mice

Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Big Rat, Video, Rat, Biology, Rodent World, Science, Rats, Science News, Zoology, Animal Kingdom, Rat's Skull Shape, Rat Bite, Rat Jaw, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/27/2012 05:21 PM EDT on LiveScience Rats and their close relatives, including mice, make ...

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Giant Rat Killed In England

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Video, Rat, Scary Animals, Animal Videos, Animal Violence, Giant Rat, Rats, Crazy Animal Videos, Crazy Animal Photos, Animals, Slideexpand, Rodents, Weird News News

An English man named Brian Watson killed a large rat his granddaughter's boyfriend found while cutting grass, Sky News reports. "I heard him shout...

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WATCH: Baby Hawk Hatches, Has First Rat Meal

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: City Room, Video, Red-Tailed Hawk Cam, Ny News, Nyu Bobst Library, Rats, Pigeons, New York News, New York University, New York City Hawk, Hawk Cam, New York News

Rats can be a hazardous source of food for hawks in New York City (R.I.P. Lima) but, save for pigeons, it's probably their most plentiful food supply....

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Keys Swarmed By Cat-Sized Rats

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Video, Grassy Key, Florida Keys, Miami News, Key West, Rats, African Rats, Weird Florida, 9 Pound Rat Florida, Rodents, Giant Pouched Rats, Gambian Rats, Gambian Pouch Rats, Miami News

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are battling an invasive species in the Keys they thoug...

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ANOTHER Hawk Found Dead, May Have Eaten Poisoned Rat

| Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Riverside Park, Urban Hawks, Central Park, New York City Rats, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Boat Basin Cafe, Rats, Hawks, Pale Male, New York News

By Leslie Albrecht UPPER WEST SIDE — Riverside Park's beloved female red-tailed hawk was found dead of unknown causes on Friday, hawk watchers to...

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WATCH: Cat And Rat Share Milk

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Cats, Video, Rats, Pets, Cute Animals, Cat and Rat Drinking Milk Together, Cat and Rat, Animal Videos, Cute Animal Videos, Comedy News

Who says cats and rats can't get along? These two share a saucer of milk pretty well, all things (namely: potential murders) considered. And even t...

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On NYC Subways, It's Kids' Breakfasts Vs. Rats

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Food Research and Action Center, Breakfast, Rats, Mta, Houston ISD, Subways, Joseph J. Lhota, New York News

When Joseph Lhota served as Rudolph Giuliani's deputy mayor he was so active in combatting the city's rodent problem that Giuliani christened him the "rat czar." So why is he now opposed to an eating ban on the subway?

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Subway Eating Ban Does Not Have Support Of MTA Chief (POLL)

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: New York City Subway, Subway Food Ban, Ny News, New York Rats, Rats, Rat Czar, Joseph-Lhota, New York News, Mta, State Senator Bill Perkins, Churros, New York News

MTA chief Joseph Lhota does not support State Senator Bill Perkin's bill in Albany to ban eating on the subway--and may not be a fan of the Senator hi...

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RATS ON THE ROAST

Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Thailand Rats, Rat Meat, Thailand, Rats, Video, Eating Rats, Rat Delicacy Thailand, Rat Meat Thailand, World News

We're not talking ratatouille. That stuff's vegetarian. In Thailand, roasted rodent meat has become something of a delicacy, according to a BBC rep...

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Dead Family Members Believed Reincarnated As Rodents In India Rat Temple

National Geographic | Posted 02.06.2012

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On the surface, this temple in northern India appears like any other. But there's a main difference: there are 15,000 deities living inside it and the...

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Things Ken Cuccinelli Dislikes: Rats, Roman Goddess Breasts

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 02.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Ken Cuccinelli dislikes many things. Recently, Virginia's Republican attorney general has spent a lot of time making known his intense d...

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Stem Cells Can Fix Penis Trouble? What New Study Shows

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Video, Penis, Peyronie's Disease, Stem Cells, Tulane University, Grafts, Rats, Sexual Dysfunction, Rodents, Science News

Stem cells sure are versatile. They're being eyed as the key to treating medical conditions ranging from heart disease to neurological problems and bl...

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Boa Constrictors' Big Squeeze: How Do They Know When To Stop?

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Boa Constrictor, Herpetology, Rats, Snake, Video, Biological-Research, Prey, Boa, Rodents, Science News

Boas and other constrictors kill by literally squeezing the life out of their prey--no secret there. But how do they know when to stop squeezing? ...

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Empathic Rats: Rats Choose to Help Others Over Chocolate

Marc Bekoff | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Lab Rats, Empathy, Altruism, Rats Empathy, Rats, Animals Emotions, Animals Empathy, Rats Empathy Altruistic Behavior, Chocolate, Denver News

Some fascinating new results about empathy in laboratory rats caution against our tooting our "we're so special" horn too loudly or proudly.

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Rats Show They Care About Other Rats In New Study

| Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Mice, Video, Rats Study, Rat Experiments, Rodent Experiments, Rats Empathy, Rats, Animals, Rats Empathy Altruistic Behavior, Rodents, Green News

By Ferris Jabr (Click here for original article.) The English language is not especially kind to rats. We say we "smell a rat" when something does...

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Transit Workers: Budget Cuts Causing A Rat Epidemic

Posted 11.22.2011

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MTA workers protested Wednesday in front of Jamaica Central Terminal demanding that the city address what they say is a terrible rodent problem in the...

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Victoria Zackheim: Rats In San Francisco?

Red Room | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Norwegian Wharf Rats, Getting Rid of Rats, Rats, San Francisco Living, Dogpatch, Redroom, Gentrification, Rat Poison, San Francisco News

With growth comes change -- tonier restaurants, a decidedly improved quality of espresso, and a few unwelcome guests forced out of their habitats by bulldozers. At the top of that list: Norwegian wharf rats.

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Watch: Rat Tempts Predators With Poisonous Mohawk

Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Poison, Video, Rat, Predators, Nature, Africa, Green, Green News, East Africa, Animal Behavior, Rats, Rat Poison Fur, Green News

A species of African rat has developed a novel advantage in the evolutionary struggle - it slathers poison across the fur on its back. The rats apply ...

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PHOTOS: It's Rat Catcher's Day -- And Exterminators Don't Even Know It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Muessig | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Rat Catchers, Holiday, Rat, Pied Piper, Rat Catchers Day, Weird Animals, Rat Catcher, Exterminators, Rats, Exterminator, Rat Catchers Day 2011, July 22, Weird Holidays, Weird News News

Exterminators work long hours setting traps in dark corners and dank basements -- but July 22 is their day in the sun. Or at least it's supposed to...

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Dreaming About Rats? Find Out What It Might Mean

The Huffington Post | Wendy Gould | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Rats in Dreams, Rat Dreams, Rats, Dreams, Rat Dream Meanings, Healthy Living News

Dreams about rats are a common theme at bedtime. If you or a loved one has been covering this ground at night, you may have questions about what it al...

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Making New Friends at the Indian Rat Temple

Alex Budak | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Hinduism, India, Temple, Rats, Bikaner, Indian-Temple, Rajasthan, Travel News

The Karni Mata Temple is a beautiful marble temple, but upon arriving and removing one's shoes, the carving on the doors make it clear that this is no ordinary Hindu temple.

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VIDEO: Giant Rats Viciously Attack Two Babies In South Africa

Posted 11.15.2011

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14 Things My Cat Taught Me

Carine Fabius | Posted 08.03.2011

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1. If you're going to scratch someone, wave your tail first. If someone you know annoys you enough so that you want to pounce, claws first, to make th...

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Rats On A Plane

AP | By SARAH DiLORENZO | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Qantas Airlines, Rats, Sydney, Australia, Animals in the News, Qantas, Weird Animals, Brisbane, Weird News News

SYDNEY -- A flight crew checking the cabin of a Qantas plane before takeoff found rats in a compartment holding medical equipment, grounding the plane...

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