These bouncy little guys should be the stars in a future Pixar film! Or maybe a major science fiction pic – they’re too cute to be real.
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Popular press, movies and television shows rarely, if ever, have anything good to say about rats. Police in India, however, are very happy to have them.
It seems officials in India’s Haryana state have a plague of mice infesting office police records and destroying evidence. The small rodents have been steadily munching their way through official [...]
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Why do some animals have big ears? Desert animals in particular are often characterized by their over sized hearing devices, indicating the size may be a vital survival adaptation.
Unlike other natural habitats, deserts have very sparse vegetation with limited cover. With little to hide behind, small creatures need to hear extremely well to both locate [...]
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Every year on February 2, people all over North America wait for a rodent to decide the future.
This purely North American tradition is called Groundhog Day (the festival, not the movie). It’s based on the belief that on this day, the groundhog – which is actually a woodchuck – comes out of its hole to [...]
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