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Kayla Goodman-Weinbaum was met with evidence of a furry trespasser when she returned to her Dupont Circle studio apartment on a recent summer night. She had heard noises in her walls for weeks ...

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Looking at the few cities where rat reports are down may help in the fight against rats, Richardson and Corradi said. The answer is not more poison or traps, but prevention, the study said.

As rats are highly food-motivated, it might be in their best interests to get an equal share of it. Fighting over food is normal behavior for rats. Thankfully, as depicted in the attached video ...

a newly formed "elite squad of anti-rat activists" created by the mayor's office to escalate the fight against the city's infamous pests. "Elite" is a bit of a stretch, like calling the local Cub ...

You might think that ‘hero rats’ are the lead characters of a new Pixar movie, but these happen to be actual African Giant ...

They fight savagely and blindly, in the manner of mad dogs; they bare their teeth and leap about every which way, snarling and snapping and clawing the air. A full-grown black rat, when desperate ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “This was a really convincing paper using a comprehensive group of assays,” said Matthew Pamenter, who studies naked mole-rat biology at the ...

The Rat Fight Robotics team is a community robotics team for Madison County high school students lead by mentors enrolled at Berea College. This year started with 8 students and 3 mentors ...