Sentences with phrase «rats scurry»

Cases peak in the dry season, when farmers burn the bushes in preparation for spring planting and rats scurry into houses in search of food.

The aggressive rats scurry to the backs...

Rats scurry underground, and pigeons fly away.

Comptroller John Liu's office surveyed 107 playgrounds across the city last summer and found safety hazards at more than two dozen of them, including rats scurrying through Tompkins Square Park to crumbling safety mats at East River Playground on East 106th Street.

While a rat scurried around mopping up chocolate treats, the researchers watched, perplexed, as the computer mapped the firings, and overlapping blobs appeared on the screen.

By measuring the amount and location of the hippocampus cell firing, the researchers were able to determine that the neurons fired in the exact reverse order of the firing that occurred when the rat scurried from one end of the track to the other.

Good to see that your retriever still has his breed instincts - my Airedale (bred to hunt water - rats in water) hates to get even her paws wet and quietly watched a rat scurry past us the other day!

It was used for hunting rats in an unusual way: first ferrets were sent into rat burrows and when the rats scurried out, the Airedale's would then take up the chase.

No one knows when the first rat scurried onto the islands.

The mansion appears fairly normal, apart from some rats scurrying around the basement and a few locked doors.

At best, one might rush through them, merely as a shortcut, trying to avoid the pungent smell of waste, while turning a blind eye to rats scurrying away.

Not exact matches

Forward Scott Mellanby killed a rat with his hockey stick, which had tried scurrying across the team's locker room before the Panthers» home opener on October 8, 1995.

Rat was the name Rohan's teammates finally gave him as a measure of respect for the menacing way he scurried around the field making tackles.

Banksy returned to New York City this past week, painting a mural on Houston St. honoring a jailed Turkish artist, and adding a scurrying rat to the clock of an old bank building slated for demolition on W. 14th St.. The artwork on the famed...

«New Yorkers tend to focus on rats because they are larger and we see them scurrying around in streets or subways; however, from a public health vantage point, mice are more worrisome because they live indoors and are more likely to contaminate our environment, even if we don't see them,» says senior author W. Ian Lipkin, MD, senior author of both papers, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and director of CII.

The laser in a tiny but powerful microscope is giving neuroscientists their best look yet at how the brains of rats work as they scurry about their daily activities.

In one study, rats were trained to scurry around a track for a food reward.

Soon, perhaps, small rats or rabbits would emerge to scurry on the sand having scented the crumbs of the bread they had eaten.

She said hundreds of rats and mice were also scurrying about.

Rats had been burrowing into the equipment bags that bicycle officers stored in outside cages; inside the facility, mice were sometimes scurrying across people's desks.

The black rat eats whatever it can, scurrying up cliffs, stealing eggs from under flustered parents, and sometimes rolling them down bluffs to save for later.

Mercurio from the rat clan sneaks and scurries through the streets and undergrowth with an almost inaudible patter of tiny feet.

Eventually the entire AGW house of cards will collapse and the rats will scurry away (or «move on» in hockey team parlance), but not until it has run it's course.