Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Indian police enrol rat recruits to fight mice army

Police in India's Haryana state believe they have found a novel way to tackle a plague of mice infesting official records and destroying evidence.

They have started using a pair of domesticated white rats to scare the mice away.

Rodents are a huge problem in India, consuming tonnes of grain intended for human consumption every year.



The experiment has now attracted the attention of animal experts, who think it could be a solution to the problem.

Senior superintendent Arshinder Singh Chawla said: "It is working like magic."

"My men have been releasing them in the Moharar Maalkhana [record room] every night and the pests have just disappeared."

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