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Rats help save humans.

4 The Love Of Animals

A foul-smelling wound might spell an infection. The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on April 25, 2010. Long before CAT scans, X-rays, blood samples and colonoscopies, physicians used the good sense they were born with: their sense of smell. Liver disease?

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Striding Snake-killers

10,000 Birds

The quills of the “Saqu Ettair” Secretarybirds feed on small lizards, insects, rodents, birds eggs and, of course, snakes. They typically dispatch a snake by stomping on it with their heavily armored legs and feet, accurately directing their rear talons at the skull to effect a swift mortal wound to the head.

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