elephant ivory and African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) in cargo shipments. Not all rats in the facility are suitable for the job: trainers look for rats that bond with them and are eager to ...

A Westmeath woman has expressed her surprise and pride after a landmine-hunting rat that she adopted in Cambodia set a world ...

Affected populations: Hantavirus disease is a rare but potentially deadly respiratory illness that is caused by a family of ...

The Belgian non-profit APOPO announced that Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, had become the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organization’s history, earning a Guinness World Record ...

The 65-year-old classical pianist died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), a rare lung infection that spreads when exposed to infected urine, feces, and saliva of rats. Gene Hackman and ...

There are thought to be almost 4,000 cases in a single country, with one case confirmed in the UK in February 2025.

"There was a entry hole where they had chewed through the drywall down at the bottom, and there was an entire nest here, all ... of the rats, forcing them to live in a hotel and with family ...

Ronin, a rat trained to sniff out explosives, has earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records after finding a record 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Cambodia’s northern ...

Article continues below Hullternative Pest Control, an independent family-run business based in ... the streets have turned into a "breeding ground" for rats, in effect "a buffet on tap", the ...

The long-tailed rodents usually get a bad reputation, as most people see them as unclean vermin – and mice get all ... rats a good name by embodying the principles of devotion, family love ...

Philadelphia, John Africa thinks he has a solution to the problems plaguing the city — extreme back-to-nature living.

Seventy one per cent of all confirmed ... in parts of West Africa, particularly Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The virus is carried and spread by a species of rats called Mastomys ...