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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MONTERREY, Mexico - Health authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua said Tuesday they are recruiting hundreds of cats to fight hundreds of thousands of rats.    Chihuahua state officials say they hope to collect as many as 700 felines and send them to Atascaderos, an isolated farm village in the rugged Tarahumara mountains, a region where officials estimate there are about a half million rats...
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PLANOTexas - The traps are out as a Plano family waits to see if a bobcat&#39;s kittens take the bait. The mother bobcat was captured Wednesday, and one of three kittens was captured Friday morning.
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ATASCADEROS, Mexico - This remote farming town in northwestern Mexico has tried just about everything to rid itself of rats: cats, poison and even cash rewards for killing the thousands of rodents infesting businesses and destroying the corn harvest.
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Republican candidates opened a final assault in Florida before the stateâs presidential primary on Jan. 29.
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VILANCULOS, Mozambique  - A giant African rat has  become man's second-best friend as it joins forces with the dog  to sniff out land mines in Mozambique.
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People who handle rats in labs or keep them as pets are at risk of contracting a rare but potentially deadly disease called rat-bite fever, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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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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The Florida racinos need a level playing field to have a chance.
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The rabbit-size rodents were once said to be headed for extinction, but now scientists say there are three times more of them on the African island than had been thought.
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Health authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua said Tuesday they are recruiting hundreds of cats to fight hundreds of thousands of rats.
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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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NEW YORK - When the owner's away, the rats will play. Video shot Friday morning through the window of a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in New York caught several rats running around the floor, between counters and tables and on children's high chairs.
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Armed poachers from Sudan have been raiding and destroying neighboring Central African Republic's wildlife resources for years. Now, with the help of a militant U.S. conservationist, the CAR populace is arming and training itself to fight back.
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People living in communities surrounding a large shallow lake have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of islands on the lake, state media reported Monday.
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SARASOTA, Fla. Aug. 18, 2004  The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation.
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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.