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Profile: Woodchuck
Wichita :: KS :: USA | 6 days ago
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Photos Marmota monax Kansas' largest member of the squirrel family appears to be spreading its range across the state. The 1981 edition of Mammals of Kansas shows Greenwood and Cowley counties as about the furthest west locations into central Kansas
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Beaver-Sized Rodents Are Devouring Louisiana
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 15 days ago
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The nutria is a large rodent that looks like a large rat or a beaver. Oh, rats. A very large rodent that looks like a beaver with a rat-like tail is destroying coastal Louisiana, chomping its way through the state's wetland vegetation and removing
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Ratting Out TB: Scientists Train Rodents To Diagnose Disease
Morogoro :: Tanzania | 24 days ago
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But could some jumbo-size African rodents help health workers diagnose diseases more quickly?...A group in Tanzania is training rats to detect tuberculosis in people...They are about twice the size of your average house gerbil and half as pretty. The
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Feds: NYC kosher food warehouse is rat-infested
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Federal prosecutors say the New York City headquarters of a kosher food manufacturer has a rodent problem. The New York Times reports ( http://nyti.ms/YRCm9s ) Friday that inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration seized about $1 million in
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NYC Has A Revolutionary Plan To Cut The Rat Population
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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If rats had their own civil-rights lobby, it might be scurrying through Times Square right now, holding up teeny signs like, "Bureaucrats Out Of My Duplex Uterus ." That's because New York City is poised to slam down on the rodents with a
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Peninsula official sues CHP over chase
Redwood City :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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A San Mateo County official and her husband sued the California Highway Patrol after a Redwood City man crashed into their car during a high-speed chase that the suit says was unnecessary. The suit, filed Monday by Martha and Pedro Poyatos, claims
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Warehouse owners address rodent issue
Nasinu :: Fiji Islands | 3 months ago
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Nasinu special administrator Mosese Kama said 15 participants attended a workshop organised by the council's Environmental Health Unit to understand the issues involved. The participants from various supermarkets were trained to detect vectors and
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Complaints of Rat Outbreaks Prompt Call for Eradication Program
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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New York City officials are calling for a publicly financed program to bait, kill and remove rats in the wake of reports that Hurricane Sandy sent droves of the rodents scurrying inland, with many of them taking up residence in new neighborhoods.
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New Yorkers struggle with post-hurricane subway rats
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Many New Yorkers predicted Hurricane Sandy would drown thousands of subway rats, but instead the rodents were pushed to higher ground and are infesting neighbourhoods that didn't previously have problems. "It's an ongoing battle," exterminator Manuel
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Fight Flares Against an Omnivorous Horde
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Storm's Toll Creeps Inland, 4 Feet at a Time Julie Glassberg for The New York Times Manuel Medina sets up bait in a basement in Chinatown. He said the city's rat problem had gotten worse, because of construction and poorly stored garbage. Published:
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