The Producer's Story A rat in his bed. Rats for dinner. Milking rats. All par for the course while filming "Rat Attack."
Killer Instinct Rats do it to survive, but why is infanticide so widespread among primates, and what does that say about us?
Population Explosion In this interactive, trace the effects of the best-understood mass seeding of all, that of oak-tree acorns.
Plant vs. Predator Ecologist Dan Janzen demystifies the once-a-half-century mass seeding and its stupendous impact.
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