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An extra month may not sound like much, but female rats can have a litter every month. Each litter is eight to 16 baby rats, Richardson said: “That is a recipe for accelerated population growth.” ...

Vijayawada: In a rare incident, a four-month-old baby lost his life after bandicoot rats attacked him in a makeshift house at ...

Most house cats weight between seven and 11 pounds. A female rat gives birth to eight baby rats, or pups, at a time on average. The gestation period is 21 days. After they give birth, they can ...

that should allow the rats to be above ground, forage for a little bit longer, secure more food resource and presumably turn that into baby rats,” he says. Even a week or two of abnormally warm ...

Grist shares insights from a study published in the journal Science Advances that found hotter weather makes it easier for ...