This article is about rodentia. We'll see if we have anything on politicians next week.
From Science Norway, October 18:
Traditional methods are proving inadequate in the fight against rats.
"Traditional pest control methods are not particularly good for the environment, human health, or animal welfare," says researcher Heidi Sjursen Konestabo.
Together with her colleagues at the Department of Pest Control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), she has now published a report on measures to combat rats and mice.
"We have summarised the research and identified what actually works," she says.
For a long time, both researchers and pest control companies believed that rat poison was the best method. It is now clear that it does not solve the problem in the long run....
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Currently the most read article at Science Norway.(possibly residual displeasure from the fact that the brown rat is also known as the Norway Rat: Rattus Norvegicus)
And at the top of the front page at Science Norway:
The Five Foolish Virgins tower over the narrowest point of this strait. What is this monument from the Roman eraMay be of interest:
The Norwegian Forest Cat (here at Catster):