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Food

10,000 Birds

That makes me a bit of an oddity here in China, where people share photos of their meals online and spend (by my rough estimate) about half of their lifetime talking and thinking about what to eat next. Rodents seem to be less popular, or less available. Black-capped Kingfisher. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside.

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Chinese Give Gerbils Contraceptives to Cut Population

Critter News

Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to try to cut back the rodents' exploding numbers. Tags: Gerbils china. And I don't give the Chinese much credit in this blog. The gerbils, officials say, are threatening the fragile desert ecosystem in the vast Xinjiang region.

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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.). The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). Tuberculosis smells like tar. (In

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