Future evolution to make Earth home to variety of rat-like creatures?
What will be the end result of the human tendency to shoot, club, poison, or destroy the habitat of the large mammals, and as they disappear the medium sized mammals as well? Dr Jan Zalasiewicz at the Geology Department at the University of Leicester (UK) […]
Continue Reading →Real wildlife takes island back after rats poisoned. Island renamed Hawadax Island
The brown rats showed up on this 9 by 3 mile Aleutian Island in 1780 on the wreck of a Japanese ship. It is one of 16 islands close by and also part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The national wildlife refuge contains […]
Continue Reading →Common human brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii doesn’t just make rats like cats-
It works like this. The protozoan Toxoplasma comes to maturity inside a cat and the cysts are expelled in cat feces. Any cat that lives part of the time outside may be infected. The parasite doesn’t hurt the cat, however.
A rat or […]
Continue Reading →Unfortunate side effect to poisoning effort was the loss of 43 bald eagles and many other birds.
Alaska’s Rat Island apparently rid of its namesake pest
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