Christine Leunens

Then it's very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents, insects, showing them as very undesirable people - not people who feel the same, who care about their families too, no, but as people who are different and less human, to dehumanize them.

New Zealander Novelist

Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Italian Novelist

Mitt Romney

I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter - small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so, and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then.

American Politician

Joan Jett

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

American Musician

Julia Garner

I hate rodents. I cannot stand rodents. I couldn't even watch 'Ratatouille,' which is an animated film.

American Actress

Zoya Akhtar

I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.

Indian Director

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

American Author

Preston Manning

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Canadian Politician

Julian Clary

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

English Comedian

La La Anthony

I'm terrified of mice or any type of rodent.

American Entertainer

Rodents are often referred to as pests due to their habits of invading homes and farms.

Common Pests

The term 'rodent' may imply small size, but some, like capybaras, are quite large.

Size Perception

Rodents are known for their gnawing behavior, which is how they maintain their teeth.

Behavioral Traits

 and these alpha males who are good at this, they can be very effective at keeping the peace in the group. And the second thing they do is they show empathy for others. Now, I do an enormous amount of research on empathy, and I don't have time to go into it, but empathy is nowadays a topic that we study in rodents and dogs

The surprising science...

 Regardless, toxoplasma has definitely benefited from humans to become one of the world's most successful parasites. It's not just our willingness to let cats on our dining room tables or in our beds. Raising livestock and building cities which attract rodents

Is there a disease that...

 that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.

How parasites change...

 unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply. They've become an essential part of our food system. As populations have grown, monoculture, single crop farming, has helped us feed people efficiently.

Do we really need...

 it also helped drive crucial scientific and social progress. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It mainly affects rodents, and spreads by way of insects. Because of these insect carriers,

Plague 101 PIPE National...

 in the future we could be breeding an entirely new breed of domestic service animal rodents but the problem is they're incredibly hard to breed in captivity right now this research will tell us more about their breeding

Finding landmines using...

 but in largely unsurprising ways. Leaks, mold, bug and rodent infestations - all the usual enemies of the homeowner- now go uncontested. Within 75 years, most houses' supporting beams have rotted and sagged,

What would happen if...

 Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents, to find a perfect place to live and make a living.

Rodent Roommates PIPE...

 cuba's caves are home to a much rarer mammal than the bat the houthia a rodent the size of a small

Cuba's Animal Underworld...

 world nonetheless to keep warm he must catch up to five rodents a day