He's a lab rat—an African giant pouched rat ... some districts where people eat rats." What's more, only 25 percent of the samples the rats find suspicious are found to be positive for TB ...

A woman has shared her horror at finding a dead rat in ... only after eating half of it. Nombulelo Mkumla bought a loaf of whole wheat brown bread from a local shop in South Africa on her way ...

You know, our people eat rats.’’ In February ... from the University of Science and Technology Ifaki-Ekiti (USTI), the African giant rat is a favourite among all ethnic groups in the country ...

While enormous rats might be many people's nightmare, these huge rodents could be a key weapon in the battle against the trading of illegal wildlife goods. African giant pouched rats can be ...

A behavioral research scientist says that rats are as trainable as dogs, but their small size makes them ideal for finding trapped people ... with are called the African giant pouch rat, and ...

spreading deadly diseases and eating rotting garbage. But every so often a rat comes along that bucks the trend and leads the kind of life that forces people to rethink everything they once took ...

Only multimammate rats in Western African countries – such as Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone – are known to carry the virus. However, people who live in neighboring countries are ...

Where there are humans, there are rats. The small, human-shadowing mammals can be found on every continent on earth. But there's a lot people still ... literally means eating from the same table ...