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Fist-fighting mice crack up commuters in London Underground

This match was a real squeaker! Things got hairy in the London Underground when two mice were spotted…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #Animals #rodents #subways #usnews #Worldnews
https://www.europesays.com/britain/116311/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/116311/ Fist-fighting mice crack up commuters in London Underground    #Animals #London #rodents #subways #UsNews #WorldNews

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐻🏔️ In the first #FatMarmotWeek, eight yellow-bellied #marmots in #Colorado competed to bulk up before #hibernation.

A public vote crowned Dawn the winner for gaining 2 kg (4.5 lbs) and reaching 5.9 kg (13 lbs). The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s Marmot Project hosted the event to offset #research funding cuts, inspired by #Alaska’s #FatBearWeek.

👉 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5945683/exclusive-meet-the-inaugural-winner-of-fat-marmot-week

#wildlife #science #rockymountains #animals #rodents #nature #biology #winter

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🏔️🐭 Researchers collected 167 Andean leaf-eared #mice from sea level to the #volcano summits of the central #Andes, over 6,700 meters up, then exposed them to simulated thin air in the lab.

The highland mice turned out to use #oxygen more efficiently in their skeletal #muscle and generate more body heat than their lowland relatives. Genome sequencing also showed adaptations for detoxifying toxins in the very #plants they eat.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/these-mice-live-on-volcano-summits-at-extreme-elevations-study-finds-how/

#adaptation #wildlife #biology #science #evolution #ecology #mammals #nature #extremophiles #genetics #rodents

Genetic analysis of 147 house mice and 143 Norway rats from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. found the 84% of mice and 35% of rats had mutations in a gene that affects the efficacy of anticoagulant pesticides. This is consistent with exterminators' observations of reduced susceptibility in some populations.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/urban-rodents-are-evolving-to-survive-common-poisons/

Original paper: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.70833

#Science #Evolution #Rodents #Mice #Rates #Rodenticides

little kaiju gerbil! comm for Cybrid ​:cute_woohappyyay:​

#gerbils #gerbil #rodents #cute #cuteArt #comm #comms #commissionArt #mastoArt #fediArt #kaiju

show me!!!

#rats #mice #ratsOfMastodon #miceOfMastodon #rodents #rodentsOfMastodon #petRats #gerbils #hamsters #hamstersOfMastodon #petRodent #pets

we'll always remember king miel o7

@LukaLumia @AlexStrook

#gerbil #gerbils #pets #rodents #rodentsOfMastodon

I haven't shared my gerbils on Mastadon yet hang on let me fix that - here's Bennies and the Jet!
🐁 🐁 🐁
(The black-eyed one is Jet, and I finally accepted I can't tell the other two apart, so they're both named Benny.
Benjamin, Benedict, and Jettison, if you prefer to address them as tiny gentlemen who happen to love trash)
#gerbils #rodents