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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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A winter miscellany

10,000 Birds

Hawfinches have declined in the UK in recent years and become harder to see, though they remain common on the Continent: this year I’ve only seen them in Greece. One creature that doesn’t budge for the Nuthatch is the Brown Rat, and a pair of these rodents were demonstrating their agility by raiding the bird seed.

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