Sentences with phrase «wild rats»
They put wild rats in cages and then brought cats gradually closer to them.
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The researchers have built up a colony from wild rats, some resistant to warfarin, some susceptible.
They would mate with wild rats, and all of their offspring would inherit that broken gene.
When those offspring then mated with more wild rats, their offspring would all inherit it as well.
«People usually dislike wild rats because they live in sewage and carry disease.»
A half a million households in the U.S. own pet rats or mice, yet because of the revulsion many people have toward wild rats, pet rats are often misunderstood and mistreated.
Recently reports indicate wild rats can be carriers of MRSP and a baby alpaca was found to be colonized with MRSA.
That's why wild rats tend to congregate around dumpsters and trash bins nibbling on anything they can get their little paws on.
«Marlene, I know I'm here to see Spike (Guinea Pig with viral eye infection from wild rats.)
In the real world, rats don't spend their lives in cages waiting for lights to turn on; these experiments don't capture the complex role that fear plays in a wild rat's life.
Wild rats may have figured out a way to «flea - bomb» their homes.
Oh, the domestic rats are extremely calm — they've been bred to be calm, I wild rat would completely freak out.
Cairns should not be trusted with smaller pets; a Cairn will have a hard time differentiating between a pet rat and a wild rat.
Although pet rats are closely related to wild rats, domesticated or fancy rats are easy to socialize, and will not spread disease.
Illness after the bite of a rat has been described for thousands of years in Asia in poor populations that are exposed to wild rats.