Florida tries to wipe out cat-sized African rats
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GRASSY KEY, Florida  - 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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Science & environment: Operation underway to halt a feared invasion of rats from destroying important seabird breeding station
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By Jerome Burdi, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 22--Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers Wednesday night found the man who filmed the apparent torture of a state-protected eagle ray last year on the shores of Peanut Island.
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POCATELLO, Idaho - Firefighters resuscitated four cats and an albino rat from a charred apartment in southeastern Idaho.  The animals received oxygen through a special mask designed for small animals that the department got two years ago.
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Scientists go back to the drawing board in their battle against poison resistant rats.
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The 12-foot, 1,000 pound alligator is the focus of an intensive hunting expedition after Hurricane Ivan&#39;s fury sent him swimming from his confines at the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo.
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KEY WEST, Florida  - A game of cat and mouse is under way between the U.S. government and Florida's Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum over the fate of dozens of felines roaming the former home of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
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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 centre, officials say.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - All over one suburban subdivision, wild pigs have left their mark.  There was a dead cat. Ruth Strahosky's lawn was shredded when she was on vacation.
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Pickles the cat is in a predicament a long way from her Arkansas home. The calico feline from Bismarck, Ark., stowed away in a moving van unloading furniture at a neighboring home.
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Rift Valley plan threatens to wipe out flamingos.
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Republican candidates opened a final assault in Florida before the stateâs presidential primary on Jan. 29.
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MEXICO CITY - Officials in northern Mexico are offering rewards to people who kill hordes of rats that dozens of cats could not conquer.
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The caretakers of Ernest Hemingway's Key West home want a federal judge to intervene in their dispute with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the six-toed cats that roam the property.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb. 10--In Florida, the lowly gopher tortoise can lead a short and anxious life. Although they are a state protected species, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Service often issues incidental take permits in its name.
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Authorities at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport began rounding up wild cats and kittens on Monday as part of a plan to get rid of them, despite an outcry by animal rights groups.
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Concerns are raised that the trawler which ran aground on St Kilda could carry rats, posing a threat to sea birds.