This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to the world’s ...

A New York City lawmaker wants to avenge avian icon Flaco, who died with a dangerous amount of rodenticide in his system, by sterilizing rats. Councilmember Shaun Abreu introduced a bill on Thursday ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

Rat poison is killing birds of prey, foxes and domesticated pets, according to municipal officials and a local wildlife rehabilitator. This week, the Bellingham Board of Health and Bellingham Police ...

Rabbits darting around is a regular sight in Tom Sorce's backyard in Bay View. But on a recent morning, a rabbit lying on its side and panting caught his eye. The rabbit died that afternoon, Sorce ...

Over the last few years, animal advocates sought to limit the use of anticoagulant rat poisons due to the dangers they pose to wildlife and pets — even as Massachusetts cities continue to struggle ...

While many view Los Angeles as a concrete jungle, there's another side of the city more akin to the wild. L.A. lies within a biodiversity hot spot, with ecologically rich habitats such as the Santa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This mountain lion, known as P-47, was found dead in Southern California on March 21, 2019, with rat poison in his system.