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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Democratic campaigners are targeting Florida's black community, hoping to channel their anger over the 2000 electoral fiasco into a resolve to defeat President George W. Bush.
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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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By Laura Figueroa, The Miami Herald  May 25--Following weeks of sightings and complaints from residents, two alligators were captured in the Miami Lakes area on Friday afternoon.
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Alan Rabinowitz has persuaded dictatorships and democracies alike to protect their felines.
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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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As the rising sun danced across Florida's coastal waters, government workers in shorts and T-shirts knelt in a grassy island field and plucked wriggling rats from traps laid the night before.
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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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WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. - Dale Rippy says he was acting on instinct when a rabid 25-pound bobcat attacked him on his porch in this central Florida suburb. Rippy, 62, endured the bobcat's slashes and bites until it clawed into a position where he could grab it by the throat.
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MEXICO CITY - For one northern Mexican town, an army of cats seemed like the best strategy against a plague of mice. But the cats proved no match for the problem, and now the town is pinning its hopes on a more lethal predator: men armed with cash incentives.
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A game of cat and mouse is under way between the U.S. government and Florida&#39;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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Wildlife officials in Missouri are trying to get boaters to help stop the spread of invasive zebra mussels through the region's lakes and rivers.
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Experts believe a sore tooth may have led a Tanzanian lion to go on a human killing spree instead of hunting buffalo.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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Authorities in Puerto Rico are using cages and mangos to try to trap hundreds of marauding monkeys &#151; descendants of escaped research animals &#151; and hope to send them off to sanctuaries or labs, or to kill them.
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The Florida racinos need a level playing field to have a chance.
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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.