Rodents are the natural reservoirs of Yersinia ; less frequently other mammals serve as the host.

Rodents are the typical intermediate host.

Rodents of almost every family in the world are somewhere predated by Buteo species.

Rodents are preferred because of their size and easy handling, but are mostly chosen because the effects of the NAcc seem to take effect much quicker than they do in primates.

Rodents are almost exclusively taken when they are available.

Rodents are much less susceptible.

Rodents are difficult to kill with poisons because their feeding habits reflect their place as scavengers.

Rodents, especially rats, are definitive hosts and natural reservoirs of H. diminuta.

* Giant rats, known as Rodents of Unusual Size ( R. O. U. S. ), are a running gag in the 1973 novel and 1987 motion picture, The Princess Bride.

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is a children's fantasy by Terry Pratchett, published by Doubleday in 2001.

While Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book for children, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents had swearing translated to rat language, in this book it is in the dialect of the Nac Mac Feegle which is taken from Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

He is also mentioned, although not by name, in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

The Colour of Magic is one of the few of the thirty-nine Discworld novels to be divided into sections or chapters, some others being Pyramids, Going Postal, Making Money, and some of the books for younger readers, specifically The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents and the four Tiffany Aching books, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight.

In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, Keith skeptically notes that the filth associated with supposedly tying the young rats together at a young age is not found in a rat's nest, and suspects that a rat king is created as a sort of project by a rat catcher himself.

In the mythology of the Changeling Clan in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents the Death of Rats is known as the Bone Rat.

He is possibly related to Sergeant Doppelpunkt ( German for " colon ", as in the punctuation mark ), one half of the town watch in Bad Blintz, Überwald, seen in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

He is possibly related to Corporal Knopf, ( as Knopf can be translated as knob ), one half of the town watch in Bad Blintz, Überwald, seen in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

He is one of the main characters in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

Darktan is a Changeling rat who appears in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

Maurice, the titular character in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, is a sapient talking cat.

The creator god somewhat hazily conjectured by the Clan in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

Rodents become more extroverted and less fearful of felines.

Rodents first arrived in Australia 5 – 10 MYA, undergoing a wide radiation to produce the species collectively known as the ' old endemic ' rodents.

* Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, published in 2001, gives version of the tale.

Rodents, rabbits, and hares often serve as reservoir hosts, but waterborne infection accounts for 5 to 10 % of all tularemia in the US.

Rodents have been shown to demonstrate empathy for cagemates ( but not strangers ) in pain.

Rodents have four, while Foxes have nine.

Rodents have been specifically bred for exercise behavior or performance in several different studies.

Geoffrey Whitehead played the part in the adaptation of Mort, John Rowe played him in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, and Michael Kilgariff voiced Death in Episode 4 of Small Gods.

The Death of Rats has appeared in the animated Soul Music and in the radio play of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, but has not been given a voice credit for either.

* Martin, Robert A., H. Thomas Goodwin and James O. Farlow, Late Neogene ( Late Hemphillian ) Rodents from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole, Grant County, Indiana.

In normal use weights are hung on the end of the tape and allowed to pull the tape and the material to be tested between the blocks.

These droplets are distorted by the normal forces just as a balloon would be pulled or pressed out of shape in one's hands.

The Af layers are stacked normal to the ( 111 ) axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer, in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers.

The bond angles and distances are all within the expected limits and the volume per oxygen is about normal.

Thus in his friends are stranger than his sisters' strong stresses are normal for his and sisters', but in his friends are stranger than his sisters strong stresses are normal for friends and sisters.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

If baby teeth are retained too long, the incoming second teeth may be prevented from emerging at the normal time or may have to erupt in the wrong place.

Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.

`` In view of the present situation in Laos '', said the Pentagon's announcement, `` we are taking normal precautionary actions to increase the readiness of our forces in the Pacific ''.

It is simply that in Taoist tradition -- as in all good mysticisms -- books, words, or any other manifestations that belong to the normal state of consciousness are considered only the surface of experience.

* Normality – the distributions of the residuals are normal.

The test statistics of this derived linear model are closely approximated by the test statistics of an appropriate normal linear model, according to approximation theorems and simulation studies.

Of the 22 standard amino acids, 9 are called essential amino acids because the human body cannot synthesize them from other compounds at the level needed for normal growth, so they must be obtained from food.

It is important to note that these are " politically correct " terms and that in normal parlance, the adjective " American " and its direct cognates are almost always used unless the context does not render the nationality of the person clear.

The exchange's normal trading sessions are from 9: 30 a. m. to 4: 00 p. m. on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

Abzymes are usually artificial constructs, but are also found in normal humans ( anti-vasoactive intestinal peptide autoantibodies ) and in patients with autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, where they can bind to and hydrolyze DNA.