Any of various small, squirrellike Old World rodents of the family Gliridae.
So don't think of bats as flying rodents — think of them as itty bitty flying horses.
These include social rodents, dolphins, whales, elephants, horses, social carnivores (such as wolves and hyenas), and primates — including humans.
They feed mostly on animals like rats, bandicoots, and other rodents, but occasionally eat arboreal animals like birds and flying squirrels.
The spokesman noted that leptospirosis is a zoonotic animal disease caused by the bacteria, leptospira , which can be found in some animals including rodents, cattle, pigs, horses and dogs.
Objective: to evaluate the palatability of bromadiolone to rodents and efficacy against rodents.
Nor is any of this truly surprising. For, besides humans, Toxoplasma has two normal hosts: rodents and cats. And what it does to rodents is very odd indeed.
For example, small diurnal rodents eat berries, nuts, leaves, fruit, seeds, and insects.
Conclusion: Field experiment on rodents proves that it is palatable and also secure to human, so it is applicable.
He also worked out how to control the timing of the rodents' ovulation - which annoyingly tended to happen at night - by administering certain hormones.
Make certain the holes are large, but not large enough to let any predator inside! This helps to keep humidity up, keeps rodents and other pests out, and allows for good oxygen exchange.
Odors of carnivore can affect rodents in three ways:(1) to depress behavior such as activity level and feeding of rodents, especially in herbivore, to reduce rodent pest;
The rodents were spiked with doses of speed equivalent to those taken by addicts on a binge.
Further studies have shown that different levels of SNCA exist in the brains of rodents that prefer alcohol versus those who do not like alcohol.
Objective To study species and distribution of rodents in Zhangjiakou.
Methods to catch rodents with cage and collect the ectoparasites of the rodent.
Reserachers found changes to bone mineral density and bone marrow in the rodents when they were deprived of shuteye over a period of 72 days.
Some studies have linked saccharin to cancer in rodents.
The mean proportional volumes of mucous acini were more than those of serous acini except salivary glands of rodents.
The researchers found that in rodents, a molecule called 27-hydroxycholesterol, or 27HC, binds to the same receptors in the blood vessels of the heart to which estrogen binds.
Reducing the numbers of flies, mosquitoes, and rodents quickly in an emergency may be difficult, but physical screens can be used to control the immediate problem.
It hunts and prey on small rodents, rabbits, hares, ducks and geese.
Objective: To explore the ecological characteristics and control strategy of the rodents left at the advanced rodents control city.
Products used for the control of mice, rats or other rodents, by means other than repulsion or attraction.
In the swim test, rodents are placed in a swim tank and observed to see whether they continue to search for an escape from the water or give up and just float on top of the water.
When humans (and rodents) lose 10% or more of their body weight, leptin falls rapidly and sets off a cascade of physiological changes that act to put weight back on.
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