Sentences with phrase «with rodent populations»

Unfortunately there are very few humane ways of dealing with rodent populations once they take over an area.

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While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.

Closer to home, when carrying out ecological surveying in London, I had been required to liaise with the local authorities — for example, to get permission to trap rodents (alive) in public parks, in order to assess the size of their populations.

With more rainfall, vegetation increases, which then fuels rodent populations.

Trinkaus gained the clues to the Levantines» lifestyle from an unlikely combination of fossil evidence recovered by Israeli archaeologists; first, remains of the thigh bone (femur) and, secondly, remains of rodents that shared the caves with the two human populations, presumably nibbling their refuse.

Inspired by natural gene drives, researchers have spent decades trying to perfect a system that might endow a population of mosquitoes with a malaria resistance gene, for example, or spread a lethal gene that cuts down a local population of invasive insects or rodents.

The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the IER literature to date, with a specific focus on its effects on cardiometabolic health indices in rodent and human populations.

It will also be important to determine the effects of IER in other populations, for example in individuals with more profound metabolic derangements such as those with established T2DM, the evidence for which is relatively sparse.36 Additionally, given that several rodent and human IER (50 - 100 % ER on restricted days) trials have demonstrated metabolic improvements in the absence of overall ER 15, 22, 27, 31, 53,105, one can speculate that IER may have potential applications within non-overweight populations and as a maintenance strategy post-weight-loss.

Buoyed by imaginative gadgets and disguises, and accompanied by his assistant and confidante, Dr. David Q. Dawson, Basil uncovers a villainous plot spearheaded by a slimy, contemptible sewer rat, Dr. Ratigan, to replace Moustoria, Queen of the Mice, with a look - alike robot that will leave him free to take control of the entire rodent population of London.

What does the rodent population in New Zealand have to do with climate change?

A hunter at heart, Shiba Inus should not be left with small animals unless you need some help in keeping the rodent population under control.

With the increase in plant growth from the wet winter fueling a surge in the rodent population, an increase in plague activity is expected.

This time of year many people are treating their homes, camps and lawns with a variety of poisons, or rodenticides, to control their rodent populations.

Some were ship's cats that ventured ashore with the early settlers; others perhaps were imported to control the rodent populations of the settlements.

The U.S. retained a large feral cat population long after street dogs disappeared, partly because cats are smaller than dogs, with smaller food requirements, and partly also because street dogs scavenge much more than hunt rodents, whereas feral cats hunt rodents much more than scavenge.

The Ancient Egyptians first interacted with cats by welcoming them into the villages and caves and enlisting them as vermin hunters to control the rodent population and protect their grain supply.

Working with the park managers, Phyllis convinced them the cats were a great asset, keeping the rodent population down.

We assist local shelters with our Barn Cat Program, where we save feral and semi-feral cats from euthanasia and place them into barn homes where they can help control the rodent population.