Quotes About Rodents

I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.

Human sexual and social behavior shares some similaries with that of rodents, but has some important differences as well. It shows much greater variability and individuality, for example, and is less closely tied to the olfactory system. At present, it is tempting to speculate that those of us with cheatin' hearts might have differences in brain dopamine, vasopressin, or oxytocin signaling when compared to our more faithful friends who have adopted the prairie vole lifestyle.

My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked.

Rats are the most unloved living things on the planet.

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

Did you know that rats can't vomit?" "Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.

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Geneticists claim to have isolated the genes responsible for vole monogamy. If the addition of a gene can turn a vole Don Juan into a loyal and loving husband, are we far off from being able to genetically engineer not only the individual abilities of rodents (and humans), but also their social structures?

Or I just sent my dragon into the woods to fetch rodents for you because I'm the wicked witch your grandmother warned you about.

Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?

Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents.

Look, he even tried getting at the rope." Carl studied the scene. "With all the rodents

Rodents are pests and not pets, and anything that manically runs around a wheel 24/7 and occasionally has 19 babies in the middle of the night should not be brought into the house.

I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.

Unlike humans, rodents seem to inherently enjoy physical activity, and Cotman's mice ran several kilometers a night. They were divided into four groups: mice running for two, four, or seven nights, and one control group with no running wheel. When their brains were injected with a molecule that binds to BDNF and scanned, not only did the scans of the running rodents show an increase in BDNF over controls, but the farther each mouse ran, the higher the levels were.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Things I am allergic to: people who believe in star signs and think nothing of starting a conversation with: 'Hi, my name's Lucy. I'm a Sagittarius;' rodents (apart from miniature hamsters, which are not in fact rodents but small, breathing, brown balls of cotton wool); and people who go to the gym.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.

Sewer rats are really gross.

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We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.