Place your newly fabricated collar around each young seedling so the base is firmly in the ground and the little plant is ...

WASHINGTON - D.C.’s new pair of three-year-old giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, got some play time in last week at their new home at Washington's National Zoo. Zoo officials say keepers gave ...

“It is sinful to use chemicals and kills rats, “she said. Village elders say this year the rat population multiplied because one of the bamboo species (gopey) bloomed. Batuli Maya, 79, of Doonglagang ...

A wildlife attraction housing rare amphibians, lizards and snakes has suffered an attack by rats. Forestry England said rats had infiltrated the pods at the New Forest Reptile Centre near Lyndhurst.

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None of Cyril Ramaphosa's plans to tackle food poisoning address the root cause of the problem: rats and no refuse collection. It is commonly accepted that in certain African countries ...

Forget the cheese — these rats have a need for speed. Scientists teaching rats to drive have discovered that not only are the rodents capable of operating their tiny cars, but they actually ...

Rats will choose to take a longer route if it means they get to enjoy the ride to their destination. Kelly Lambert, CC BY-ND A group of researchers has found that rats are not just capable of ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Although cars made for rats are far from anything they would encounter in the wild, we believed that driving represented an interesting way to ...

The rat is a medium-sized rodent from the genus Rattus. Rattus norvegicus (brown rat) is a model vertebrate reared in the laboratory for studying subjects such as genetics, physiology, disease and ...