Those rat-proof bins? Not rat-proof after all.

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While rats are a horrifying sight for locals, SFU research is why Vancouver is seen as one of the international leaders in ...

Apparently, no detail is too small for a city agency to attend to in Mayor Adams’ ongoing war on the Big Apple’s rat ...

South Africa is faced with an enormous and ever-increasing rat population that could cause serious diseases such as bubonic ...

Rats — mainly the Norway and roof species — are found in places like landfills, grain bins and hay bales, and have been found in urban areas, too, said Wickerson. They’ve been known to hitch ...

Michael H. Parsons, who describes himself as “one of the world’s few PhD-qualified urban rodentologists,” said he knows of no data to show that rat birth control does or doesn’t work.

The trash from buildings with fewer than 10 units must now be set out in bins with lids, sold by the city for $47 and up.

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An unorthodox researcher pursuing ‘the private lives of rats’ opened what seemed to be a new window on human nature.