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  • August 2008

    • Cambodia's Food Crisis Fix? Eat Rats

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 27, 08 9:45 AM CDT

      Cambodia's Food Crisis Fix? Eat Rats

      (Newser) - Food prices have rocketed so high in Cambodia that even the humblest of foods has seen its price quadruple this year. That humblest of foods is rat meat, and it’s going up precisely because so many Cambodians can’t afford any other meat, the Guardian reports. Rats have been fleeing to higher ground lately as the Mekong Delta floods, making it easy for villagers to catch, sell, and eat them. More »

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      food  • Cambodia  • rats  • rodents  • global food crisis

    • Indian State Recommends Eating Rats

      Reuters  |  Aug 18, 08 12:47 PM CDT

      Indian State Recommends Eating Rats

      (Newser) - Faced with high food prices and ebbing grain reserves, officials in the Indian state of Bihar have endorsed the consumption of rats, Reuters reports. The state government sees the strategy as a way to reduce the pest population as well as curb the demand for grain, and has even proposed that restaurants start offering the rodents. More »

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      India  • food  • food prices  • hunger  • rats  • famine  • grain

  • April 2008

    • Botox May Move from Face to Brain

      Bloomberg  |  Apr 3, 08 10:23 AM CDT

      Botox May Move from Face to Brain

      (Newser) - Botox can spread from the face to the brain, scientists who injected rats with the anti-wrinkle treatment say. Traces of the toxin turned up in the rats' brain stems three days after it was injected into their whisker muscles, Bloomberg reports. A dermatologist says the findings call for further investigation, although he notes that rats and humans have different physiologies. More »

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      brain  • scientific research  • toxin  • rats  • Botox  • wrinkles  • cosmetic treatments

  • March 2008

    • Dead Rats Stink Up Orlando Airport

      Orlando Sentinel  |  Mar 21, 08 6:00 PM CDT

      Dead Rats Stink Up Orlando Airport

      (Newser) - Dead rats are stinking up a portion of Orlando International Airport, and the smell has workers crying foul. Construction crews renovating gates earlier this month scared the rodents into the airport, the Orlando Sentinel reports; exterminators followed, and after rats died in walls and ceilings the stench sent workers and passengers home sick and shut down a customs checkpoint. More »

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      Florida  • airport  • airport security  • rats  • Orlando  • rodents

  • December 2007

    • LAPD Gets Cats to Scare Rats

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 29, 07 1:28 PM CST

      LAPD Gets Cats to Scare Rats

      (Newser) - The LAPD is using six feral felines to shoo away pesky rats and mice from its lots, the Los Angeles Times reports. The mangy, homeless creatures can't be broken in as house pets, so an animal rescue group placed them with the city’s finest to control its rodent problem. “Once we got the cats, problem solved,” said one captain. More »

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      Los Angeles  • animal rights  • LAPD  • rats  • mice  • feral cats

    • NYC Fines for Rat-Hunting Cats

      New York Times  |  Dec 22, 07 2:32 PM CST

      NYC Fines for Rat-Hunting Cats

      (Newser) - New York food shops and delis have a way to deal with rats, but health inspectors aren’t purring: Many NYC stores have a cat around to keep out rodents, the New York Times reports. Unfortunately, health inspectors frown on cats and rats with equal fervor. “Any animal around food presents a contamination threat,” one rodentologist explained. More »

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      New York City  • restaurant  • cat  • rats  • grocery stores  • rodents

    • Eek! A Giant New Rat

      BBC  |  Dec 18, 07 2:25 PM CST

      Eek! A Giant New Rat

      (Newser) - Amid the lush paradise of a so-called lost world, researchers ran into a little reminder of the developed world's sewers: A heretofore undiscovered giant rat five times the size of gutter-variety rodents. The group also came across a new pygmy possum and various rare birds in the remote area of Papua New Guinea, the BBC reports. More »

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      conservation  • rats  • Papua New Guinea

  • October 2007

    • Study Finds Rats Are Winning the Rat Race

      Reuters  |  Oct 4, 07 1:15 PM CDT

      Study Finds Rats Are Winning the Rat Race

      (Newser) - Rodent experts labeled New York the US city most open to large-scale rat infestation today, after conducting a nationwide survey that took into account climate, waste management, population density, and age of infrastructure, Reuters reports. New York's appearance atop comes months after a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant was overrun by rats and closed. Houston and Boston round out the top three. More »

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      New York City  • public health  • rats  • infestation

  • July 2007

    • Rats! Humans, Rodents Have Lots in Common

      New York Times  |  Jul 24, 07 5:48 PM CDT

      Rats! Humans, Rodents Have Lots in Common

      (Newser) - Rats may be repulsive to some, but scientists are finding that they're a lot like humans. A recent crop of behavioral studies shows that rats are astonishingly self-aware, Natalie Angier reports in today's Times. They laugh when tickled and dream in epic narratives. There are even rat optimists and rat pessimists, their personalities forged by upbringing and environment. More »

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      rats  • animal behavior  • animal testing  • human behavior

    • Mice Plague Chinese Countryside

      Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 07 8:13 PM CDT

      Mice Plague Chinese Countryside

      (Newser) - Flooding in central and southern China—the worst in 50 years—is displacing more than thousands of residents: Billions of mice, washed out of their burrows, have swarmed across acres of Chinese farmland, destroying crops and posing serious health hazards to residents. Pest control efforts have been largely ineffective so far, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      China  • agriculture  • flooding  • epidemic  • rats

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