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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 ...

NEIGHBOURS say they are facing a "massive rat infestation" — with rats jumping out of bins and appearing in toilet pans. Tenants and homeowners on Summerhill Road, Drumchapel, claim rodent ...

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 ...

Smugglers of pangolins, elephant tusks and rhino horn, meet your match: the sniffing rats. Conservationists in Tanzania are training the rodents to smell trafficked animal parts and illegal timber ...

The Rat Fight Robotics team is a community robotics team for Madison County high school students lead by mentors enrolled at ...

“We don’t have a rat census, right?” she noted during a recent conversation. But one way the city tracks the fight against rats is by calls to 311. The downward numbers are a sign, Corradi ...