Nov 16th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The Galapagos Islands are considered by many to be one of the top travel destinations in the entire world. Located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, the islands are famous for their unique wildlife that isn't found anywhere else on Earth. Those animals were first observed by Charles Darwin on his famous "Beagle" expedition and inspired him to write "On the Origin of Species" ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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180 Million Rats Targeted For Extinction In The Galapagos Islands
Nov 16th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The Galapagos Islands are considered by many to be one of the top travel destinations in the entire world. Located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, the islands are famous for their unique wildlife that isn't found anywhere else on Earth. Those animals were first observed by Charles Darwin on his famous "Beagle" expedition and inspired him to write "On the Origin of Species" ...Where's The Pied Piper Of Hamelin When You Need Him?
May 28th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
Everyone knows the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in which the German town was plagued by rats and hired the Pied Piper to take them all away. The Pied Piper led them into the nearby river and drowned them, and then demanded his fee. The city government decided not to pay him, citing budget cuts and the need to curb deficit spending. The piper then piped all the children away. This was a big ...Adventures in Eating: the Mekong Rat
Aug 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: When is a rat not a rat? I was about to find out at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese metropolis everyone still calls Saigon. After traveling around this country for two weeks, consuming everything I could and saying no to nothing, I received an education in eating. I didn't intentionally eat all the "weird" stuff, but if it was offered, I took it.
In this instance, I was eating ...Farmer in Bangladesh kills more than 83,000 rats and wins a color TV
Oct 3rd, 2009 at 2:30PM:
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I've seen a rat scurry across a New York City street at night. It looked like a small cat. Startling. Rats in New York are one of the city's long-standing jokes. The idea of the 83,450 rats that one farmer in Bangladesh killed over the last nine ...Explorers discover 'lost world' in Papua New Guinea
Sep 11th, 2009 at 8:00AM: A team of explorers from the U.S. and Britain, along with locals from Papua New Guinea, recently descended into the volcanic crater of Mount Bosavi, where they discovered a "lost world" with a host of new species that have been evolving in isolation for thousands of years. The crater is more than a kilometer deep and three kilometers across, and lacks the major predators that are often common in ...Rats love Paris and its boulangeries
Apr 29th, 2008 at 8:30PM: There are four times as many rats as humans in Paris - perhaps eight million in total, according to this BBC article. Watch out New York! Just in time for the tourist season, Paris is launching a two-month-long, city-wide information advertising campaign in the city, followed by inspections, aiming to reduce the numbers of rats on the streets. Apparently, tourists don't like to walk past ...Rats ravage India, says China
Mar 18th, 2008 at 1:00PM: Sometimes, it is fun to read the Chinese The People's Daily newspaper. Among other entertaining things, I have noticed how they tend to over-report anything bad that's going on with India. Do I sense a little competition for the world's best new superpower? Anyway, so I read in The People's Daily newspaper that rats ravaged India and a million people face famine as a result of it. Specifically, ...How Many Rats Are There in New York, Exactly?
Oct 5th, 2007 at 4:04PM: You have heard these urban legends: You are never more than six feet away from a rat in New York. There are as many as 96 million rats in the city. Even the least conservative reports suggest there are at least 250,000 of them. The truth is nobody knows how many rats there are, but everyone agrees that there is more than enough.
I, personally, don't mind rats. I think they are kind of cool. They ...
