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Rats help save humans.

4 The Love Of Animals

In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat. Rats help save humans.

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Birding the Cyclades: My my, how can I resist you?

10,000 Birds

We are in the village of Finikas on the island of Syros in the Cyclades archipelago of Greece. In the IUCN Red List, it is listed as vulnerable because of the high mortality of nestlings that become victims to rats and of adults that end up as a fishery bycatch. Trips Europe Greece seabirds' My my, how can I resist you?

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