A collection of the latest rodent articles featuring island conservation, rodent control and human interest stories from around the world.
Leaf-toed geckos were thought to be locally extinct on Rabida Island, but the diminutive reptiles have re-emerged after a campaign to eliminate invasive rats …
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Anton Wolfaardt has mice on his mind: the South African scientist is leading a project to free Marion Island, 1,900km southeast of Cape Town, of the rodents. …
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For 75 years, Alberta has boasted the absence of rats. The control program has been around since 1950, when rats were declared a pest and an agricultural threat. Darcie Deangelo, an anthropologist with the U of A, joined CTV Morning Live’s Kent Morrison to discuss her new book on human and rat relations. …
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To protect California’s food supply, public health, and agricultural economy, we should bring together science and medical expertise into the policy-making process. Rodents contaminating food storage and invasive pests threatening crops are not hypothetical risks; they are growing realities. …
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A recent study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases by a multidisciplinary team representing both veterinary and human a medicine evaluated the presence and spread of leptospirosis among urban rat populations in Boston, Massachusetts. Researchers conducted a multi-year effort to determine the prevalence of Leptospira interrogans and other Leptospira infections in brown rats (Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus) and to learn how strains …
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“It’s kind of like everyone’s nightmare scenario but you don’t really think it’s going to happen to you,” said Min Namgung. …
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