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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When jaguars kill cattle, ranchers retaliate. Now conservationists are trying for a truce that could save the Americasâ biggest cat.
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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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LOS ANGELES - Officers seized more than 100 pet rats, dozens of rabbits and other animals including several birds from the home of an 81-year-old woman, who was later treated at a hospital for what appeared to be bites, authorities said.
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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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Exterminators began sweeping a Kansas City neighborhood infested with rats after one of the rodents crawled into a baby's crib and severely disfigured the girl's face.
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Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants -- humans.
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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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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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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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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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CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Police say they're sure they shot a four-foot-long, 80-pound monitor lizard that had been lurking in an Orlando suburb for months. Still, neighbors aren't ready to let their children or pets back outside until they see a carcass.
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Rats of Atascaderos note: The tough city cats of Chihuahua 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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The small frogs that croaked in Diane Butler's backyard pond had been silenced and her goldfish were disappearing. She had the culprit, dead in a plastic bag inside her freezer. Butler's capture &#151; a 4 1/2-inch Cuban tree frog &#151; in coastal Savannah has caused a nervous stir among wildlife biologists in Georgia and Florida.
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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. Citizens who have the stomach for it can make $.40 for each rodent they kill in Guadalupe y Calvo, Mayor Jesus Velazquez told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday...
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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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Pythons that have been kept as pets and released are an ecological nightmare in Everglades National Park.