A rat was captured on camera running over the doorstep of the prime minister's residence.
The rats were captured by using Tomahawk live traps (Tomahawk Live Trap Co., Hazelhurst, WI, USA) and anesthetized with CO2.
Twenty-three rats were captured at the Passeio Público [10 (43 %) male and 13 (56 %) female], and 20 captured at the Curitiba Zoo [11 (55 %) male and 9 (45 %) female].
Five seropositive yellow pygmy rice rats were captured in modified environments: one was captured along a road border, two were captured in peridomestic environments, and two were captured in shrublands, at <150 m from homes.
Rats were captured inside the homes of Portoviejo residents by using traps from Tomahawk Live Trap (Hazelhurst, WI, USA) or snap traps, and as needed, they were euthanized by using chloroform.
The position and head direction of the rats were captured using an overhead video camera to record the position using a light-emitting diode (LED) on the animals' head-stages (50 Hz).
"However the city of Glasgow's own public health department, when it dissected rats which were captured in the area where the disease was prevalent, noticed that a considerable number of them were infected by the disease and the disease is carried by fleas".
Twenty-seven Norats rats (16 males) were captured.
A total of 299 rodents (56 striped field mice [ A. agrarius] and 243 Norway rats [ R. norvegicus]) were captured in 2006 2007 during the major HFRS endemic focus in the rural areas of Shenyang, which is ≈15 km from the Laboratory Animal Center.
For each trial, at least seven adult rats (R. rattus) were captured from wild populations in mesic forest sites within the Wai'anae Mountains, O'ahu, transported to a rodent housing facility at Lyon Arboretum, and held in 38 × 22 × 18 cm metal-mesh cages (one rat per cage).
