Sentences with phrase «about rodents»

how funny, we both wrote about rodents today!

I've enjoyed getting to know her, we've shared some laughs and some really horrid tales about rodents in our houses.

We live out in the country and I'm worried about rodents chewing threw the underground wire.

If given the chance, they are still great hunters, and a house with a Manx will certainly never have to worry about rodents.

Join the Tucson Petting Zoo and learn about rodents of an unusual size.

For the most part, feedback from teachers cited concerns about rodents and bugs, too much going on [in the classroom], spills, and taking away from instruction time.

An Erie County resident may request baiting service at a home that they own or occupy AND / OR make a complaint about rodent activity on a nearby property.

Many of them are incredibly picky and precise about the rodent they need for their pet, and I will often resort to simply letting folks pick their own from a large tray of them.

Not exact matches

After seven total tweets, she finally «felt ridiculous for complaining publicly about small rodents singing.»

I've had rodents invade my house before, and there's something embarrassing about admitting it.

Hence, you do not need to worry about weeds, pests, insects and rodents infesting your lawn and destroying it.

I only take issue with your last sentence — in many schools kids are not allowed to save fruit and veggies for snacks due to concerns about spoilage and rodent / bug infestation.

The goal of the legislation is to reduce the number of rats in the subway system, where riders currently report seeing the rodents on about one out of every ten platforms.

Malliotakis visited eight facilities that had reported rodents, roaches, bed bugs, human defecation in hallways, building deterioration, long wait periods for simple repairs and concerns about lack of security.

In addition, the order asked the health department to provide «all documents reflecting complaints of unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthy conditions in NYCHA Public Housing or DHS Homeless Shelters,» including any complaints about leaks, water damage, lead paint, rodents or insects, as well as any documents showing whether or not any city or state agency responded to, investigated, or evaluated the complaints.

About a month ago, Erie County Legislature Minority Leader John Mills and I met with County Executive Chris Collins to discuss our concerns regarding cutbacks in the county's rodent control program.

The ten most rodent - infested public housing developments — home to about 23,000 rats — are about to get a massive extermination treatment, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office announced Tuesday.

Both Stringer and Brewer have long complained about having significant rodent problems in the neighborhood.

About a third of mice exposed to severe stress (in the form of aggressive attacks by other rodents) seem to breeze through these assaults without developing the social withdrawal, listlessness or other depression and traumalike symptoms displayed by most of their rodent lab - mates.

It kills just about any kind of rodent around, from Norway rat to house mice.

To learn more about acetate's role, Shulman, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a team of Yale researchers conducted a series of experiments in rodent models of obesity.

There is something about the green pellets that the rodents seem more drawn to.

«When the brain's smaller, it's like wow, this is really obvious,» Holtzman says about inspecting the rodents.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

The study wasn't about designing a new way of testing animal behavior, either; the same test has been used in rodents.

The hypoxia - treated rodents lived more than 6 months, compared with about 2 months for untreated animals, Mootha and his colleagues report online today in Science.

Load up on adrenaline, or cool down with oxytocin About 20 years ago, neuroendocrinologist Sue Carter began examining the brains of prairie voles to understand why the small rodent indigenous to the midwestern plains of the United States is one of the natural world's great romantics.

The original importer had brought in, weeks earlier, a shipment of about 800 small mammals from Ghana, including the rodents, the known reservoir for monkeypox.

Advocates are pushing to enrich the lives of rodents and fish in the lab, but critics worry about the impact on research

About 10,000 to 9,500 years ago, African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) may have tamed themselves by hunting rodents and eating scraps from the homes of early farmers in the Middle East.

Roulin says it all started about 35 years ago when co-author Yossi Leshem from Israel's Tel - Aviv University noticed that Israeli farmers were using poison to kill rodents.

New Scientist was unable to reach the Lisbon team members, but Jean Peduzzi - Nelson, a stem cell researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, who advised the team on their surgical technique — she had previously tested it on rodents — claims the clinic has given the therapy to about 140 people in total.

The naked mole rat, a long - lived rodent, is being studied for the secrets its biology can reveal about healthy aging.

Moreover, on a treadmill, the altered mice could run about 33 % farther before becoming exhausted than could control rodents, indicating that the ACTN3 mutation enhances endurance.

Afterward, in tests to see if the mice displayed the rodent equivalent of anxiety and depression symptoms, they found about 40 percent showed high levels of behaviors that included a preference for a dark compartment over a brightly lit one, or a loss of interest in sugar water.

But the mice that worked out on the treadmill or lived in the vibrating cages harbored about one - third as much fat in the liver as did the control rodents.

Now, they take about three - quarters of their blood meals from the rodents in question because the python is eating up many of the other mammals, said Burkett - Cadena.

Studies in diabetic rodents suggest that diabetes may alter the intestine's mucosal lining, which is maintained and regenerated by intestinal stem cells; however, little is known about how this occurs and whether it is relevant to humans.

Although the precise role of neurogenesis in memory is still controversial, more than a decade of research has demonstrated that boosting neurogenesis with exercise and antidepressants such as Prozac can increase rodents» ability to learn new information about places and events.

Gallardo has now found several signs that indeed there is something unusual about the amount of DNA carried by this rodent.

One of the specimens of Paramys was a large rodent by modern standards — about three kilograms, roughly the size of a small cat — that lived during the mid-Eocene, some 47 to 49 million years ago.

Knowing that rats» faces can tell another rat how they're feeling will of course lead to more questions about using the rodents — or other animals — in biomedical research.

«But the general gist of it is that the multituberculates went extinct about 35 million years ago or so, and they were superseded by rodents.»

«The idea that this parasite knows more about our brains than we do, and has the ability to exert desired change in complicated rodent behavior, is absolutely fascinating,» Ingram said.

Neuroscientists studying rodents and humans have found that sleep deprivation interrupts the storage of episodic memories: information about who, what, when, and where.

All other mice were fed a standard pellet diet that derived about 5 % of calories from lipids (PicoLab Rodent Diet 20; Purina Mills Inc., Brentwood, Missouri, USA).

Researchers who had bred a group of mice in hopes of learning more about a brain hormone that stimulates appetite got a bit of a surprise when they saw that the rodents would suddenly collapse and...

Scientists have long known that restricting calories can fend off physiological signs of aging, with studies in fruit flies, roundworms, rodents and even people showing that chronically slashing intake by about a third can...

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

In their study, the active mice performed a moderate 45 - minute run just three times a week from the rodent equivalent of age 18 to about age 50.