Sentences with phrase «rodents make»

An animal burrows into your car (sounds crazy, but sometimes raccoons tear into seat cushions, or rodents make nests under the hood)

Poisoned rodents make for an easy meal to unsuspecting hawks and other predators.

These small rodents make fantastic pets and need medical care like dogs and cats.

When handled regularly and cared for properly, rodents make great pets.

An obscure rat - sized rodent made headlines in June as the first mammal killed off by human - induced climate change.

In spring a band of brainy rodents made headlines for zipping through mazes and mastering memory tricks.

Punxsutawney Phil isn't the only rodent making predictions for February; Teddy Bear, the porcupine, has made his picks for Super Bowl XLVIII.

Not exact matches

The name served as a shorthand to describe the device, which at the time had a long wire that made it look like a rodent with a tail.

From their observations, they think the mutual friendship helps the wolves hunt, by making rodents easier to spot and catch.

20 At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live» Isaiah 2:12 - 17

But chilies also attract seed predators, like rodents, that crush seeds and make germination impossible.

Such changes — flexible thinking, managing feelings and paying more attention to others — persist long after the pups are weaned, making active rodent parents of both sexes «smarter» (Lambert, 2012).

Country Save made my diapers dingy and smelly (think: very unclean rodent cage) after only two months.

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.

«This saved us money, makes rooms that are easy to clean, makes rooms for us that are easier to keep rodent and vermin free, and rooms that will be better, cleaner, brighter and safer for our families,» she said, apparently getting him to commit to financing the same work at other WIN facilities.

And as such, he made it a priority to restore funding for what he calls the «People's Mandates,» which include the rodent control program, parks improvements, road and bridge construction, libraries, summer youth programming and a renewed commitment to arts and cultural organizations.

«Reinstating the Rodent Control Program makes good sense, both from a health perspective and from a savings perspective.

Mr Alexander himself sought to make light of the remark, posting a comment on his Twitter site saying: «I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind.

The mice behaved just like others of their kind, as far as scientists could tell, and they also looked the same — except for the human mini brain that had been implanted into each rodent's own cortex, made visible by a little clear cover replacing part of their skull.

Ingredients: Most rodent baits are made with a warfarin - based chemical (diphacinone).

It's a natural compound made from mostly corn gluten meal and sodium chloride that blocks the rodent's system and causes fatal dehydration.

We wanted to make a list of all of the best rodent poisons we could find, so we spent days researching and reviewing as many of the highest - rated poisons we could find.

Make sure that you keep your leftover pellet bucket away from the rodents or you might not have any left!

The main ingredient is brodifacoum, making this a great product to kill nearly any sized infestation of rodents.

They told us the pendants were made of fibers from six different Andean animals — vicuña, deer, alpaca, llama, guanaco, and viscacha (the latter a common rodent hunted for food).

They started with pairs of fat yellow mice known to scientists as agouti mice, so called because they carry a particular gene — the agouti gene — that in addition to making the rodents ravenous and yellow renders them prone to cancer and diabetes.

Whether rodent or human, adolescence makes us add more value not only to sweet drinks but to all sorts of rewards.

In drug addiction — my field — rodents will self - administer and addict themselves to the same drugs that humans self - administer and addict themselves to, which makes it possible to identify the neural circuits in the brain, and the molecular changes within those circuits caused by drug exposure, that underlie states of addiction.

Researchers aware of this reality have now shown that transplanting gut bacteria from wild mice into «clean» lab mice has made those rodents less likely to die from the flu or develop cancer.

Rats usually fear strange open spaces, but having a companion by their side makes the rodents more intrepid, scientists report in the current issue of Animal Cognition.

If the calcium waves really are so important, for instance, you would expect that a genetically engineered mouse that couldn't make calcium waves would be one sorry rodent.

That the fossil was found in what was once an ancient lake bed suggests that this particular rodent may have made an unfortunate mistake — it may accidentally have landed on the lake and drowned.

Scientists have found a way to make simple droplets of oil navigate complex labyrinths with the same skill as laboratory rodents.

Perhaps even more intriguing, our astrocytes are enormous compared with the astrocytes of other animals — 20 times larger than rodent astrocytes — and they make contact with millions of neurons apiece.

As such, a cat's ideal diet is made up mainly of protein and fats derived from small prey such as rodents, birds and small reptiles and amphibians.

Then they injected the rodents» brains with Salmonella bacteria to cause an infection and waited to see whether the mice making the extra amyloid did better than controls at fighting off the microbes.

The rodent viruses make the same proteins as HCV and are found in the animal's liver, suggesting that they could function in a similar way to HCV.

In the current study, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University used rodent models to examine the role of this neurotransmitter in dynamically tracking specific elements of value - based decision making.

The rodent viruses make the same proteins as HCV and are found in the animal's liver, suggesting that they could function in a similar way to HCV (mBio, doi.org/k7p).

Researches on decision - making from neurobiological aspect have been performed by using monkeys and rodents, although the details of the mechanisms have been unclear because their brain consists of more than hundreds of millions of nerve cells.

In contrast, rodents and bats received 11 percent of the attention, even though they made up 45 percent of the mammals included.

To produce such light shows, researchers treat euthanized rodents with several organic solvents to remove the water and lipids that made them opaque.

The piriform cortex, meanwhile, is deep - seated in the brain of rodents, which made it impossible to obtain any functional images in a living animal until now.

Blood vessels grew into the microchannels, and the rodents» cells proliferated, making the implanted tissue more resilient over time.

Stick them in an enclosed space or make them share a cage with a dominant comrade and the rodents get fairly unnerved.

These bad connections make it difficult for the rodents to follow moving objects in their line of sight.

After checking to make sure the children's set of bacteria had taken hold, Smith manipulated the diets of the two groups of mice, checking for changes in the gut bacteria and weighing the rodents every few days.

Interestingly, this species has lost the two things that we think made rodents successful,» Esselstyn said.

Because rats don't develop Peyronie's disease, the researchers had to induce scarring by making incisions in the rodent penises.

In rodents, toxo's natural hosts, the parasite gets into the brain and makes the animals less fearful, resulting in them taking more risks.