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<title><![CDATA[Global warming, not mass suicide, threatens lemmings]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lemmings, the rodents inaccurately believed to commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs, are at real risk from climate change reports the Wildlife conservation Society (WCS).  The Bronx Zoo-based group has just announced plans to study the impact of global warming on these creatures of the far North.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strange spiny rodent discovered in the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of arboreal rodent in the cloud forests of Peru. The species, named Isothrix barbarabrownae, is described in the current issue of Mastozoologia, the principal mammalogy journal of South America.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-rat.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest protection best way to control rats finds study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The most cost-effective way to stop non-native rats and mongoose from decimating highly endangered species on larger tropical islands is not by intensive trapping, but instead by preserving the forest blocks where wildlife live, according to a study by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) and other groups.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0413-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Newly discovered rodent not so new or rare after all]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The newly discovered species of rodent found in a marketplace in Central Laos turns out to not be so new or so rare after all. The Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus), as the long-whiskered and stubby-legged rodent is now known, is a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years.  It is a member of a family that, until now, was only known from the fossil record. The species was first described by Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) researcher Dr. Robert Timmins after it was found on a table at a hunter's market in central Laos. In a return trip to the market, WCS conservationist Peter Clyne found the rats to be quite common, photographing several specimens.  According to Clyne, the rat is commonly brought in by hunters and eaten by local people.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bizarre rodent discovered in Southeast Asia; Oddity new to science]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists working in Southeast Asia have discovered a long-whiskered rodent with stubby legs and a tail covered in dense hair. But don't call it a squirrel. Or a rat. Because it's actually more like a guinea pig or chinchilla. But not quite. In fact the new species, found in Laos by scientists from the Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) and other groups, is so unique it represents an entire new family of wildlife.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0511-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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