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...realizing that he was a) not a rodent and b) not facing a moving vehicle, an inebriated sophomore stares into stationary headlights and freezes...
...city has also taken measures to address the rat problem and launched a website to inform citizens of preventive measures. It hired pest control expert Frank Fothergill, whose experience includes work on the Central Artery construction project, to strengthen the city’s rodent control efforts...
...their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with a mouse, it is with Darwinian perfection. The cat's teeth are arranged to sever a rodent's spine with surgical precision. --TIME...
MEANWHILE IN VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...
Quimby the Mouse (Fantagraphics; 68 pages) collects a series of comics from the early 1990s in which Corrigan's style and themes were formed. The alienated title rodent shares DNA with Disney's Mickey, among others, but with surreal differences (in some strips, for instance, he has two heads, one of which sickens and dies). Recapturing the past is a theme here too: Ware writes a touching introduction about the death of his grandmother, details from which--his returning to visit her former home, for example--surface in the strips. Ware's eerie, nostalgic world is no Disneyland...