Mexico rats survive cat onslaught
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Health officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua fail to deal with a rat plague by sending in hundreds of cats.
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NEW YORK - A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early Friday, running between counters and tables and climbing on children's high chairs.
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Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Rats of Atascaderos note: The tough city cats of Chihauhua are coming - and they are hungry. Chihuahua state officials say they hope to collect an army of 700 felines for a frontal attack on Atascaderos, an isolated farm village in the rugged Tarahumara mountains, a region where officials estimate the rat population at half a million...
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X Men therapy curbs lager-swilling rodent lifestyle Scientists based in Chile and Colorado have carried out astonishing research which appears to offer a cure for that scourge of modern society - alcoholism in rats.â¦
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A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in its enclosure, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rat catchers flew to a remote Scottish island on Tuesday for fear the rodents might come ashore from a wrecked Spanish trawler and devastate vulnerable sea bird nests.
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster: thousands of acres of grass and the herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat it versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers hope quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can destroy pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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Fossilised skull of one tonne rat nicknamed Mighty Mouse is unearthed in South America
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It's tough being a Spanish farmer, what with shrinking subsidies and bad weather. And now another scourge: the voracious, crop-crushing, furry little mountain vole.
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Kiruna, a mining town in north Sweden, has been invaded by thousands of rats thought to have crossed the border from Norway with garbage shipments for the local recycling center, officials said Tuesday.
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When jaguars kill cattle, ranchers retaliate. Now conservationists are trying for a truce that could save the Americasâ biggest cat.
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POZA RICA, Mexico -- It drove terror deep into Mexico, smashing ashore as the third most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to hit land.
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Renovations to the big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo are complete following a fatal attack by an escaped tiger.
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Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals.
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The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico.