Trap
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Newyork
Are Glue Traps Too Cruel to Use in the Fight Against Mice and Rats?
A bill would ban the sale and use of the traps in New York, but some exterminators say the method is no worse than other ways of killing rodents.
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Newyork
How to Catch a Sick Fox
The fox is sick. No question the fox is sick. At 2:30 in the afternoon on an eye-squinting winter day with no leaves left on the trees to break the glare, the fox is digging next to a neighbor’s mailbox, right beside the road. The fox is squinting ...
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Science
In the Big City, Wildlife Researchers Are on the Prowl
Early one morning last month, Laura Dudley Plimpton found herself in Forest Park, in Queens, staring at a pair of captured raccoons. It was not the first time that Ms. Plimpton, an ecologist at Columbia University, had caught two of them in a cage ...