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How To Use rodent In A Sentence

• Simply inserting the word "conservation" in the pesticide label and slightly watering down the percentage of the active ingredient, brodifacoum, does not make this rodenticide safe for wildlife, nor will it make it any less persistent. Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge
• Among these are the best specimen of the dome-skulled chalicothere Tylocephalonyx skinneri, and type specimens of several other mammals, including rodents, oreodonts and carnivores.
• Foxes as predators prey on lambs and chickens and kill native small marsupials and rodents.
• The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
• Herbert recognized in this animal the capybara, that is to say, one of the largest members of the rodent order. The Mysterious Island
• The residents have been overrun with the lop-eared rodents residing in the parklands and King George Park.
• Agricultural pesticides may be applied by farmworkers or growers to reduce infestations of insects or rodents.
• Check stored bulbs and corms for fungal diseases and damage by rodents.
• Other rodents might also be suited to domestication; for instance, the potentially tamable, clean-living species of South American fields and woodlands - agouti, capybara, hutia, mare, coypu, pace, and vizcacha. Chapter 3
• According to the sailor, any animal, whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or carnivora which might get into the new snares would be well received at Granite House. The Mysterious Island