Giant gerbils infest China: BBC

[Ivan Seeking]

An explosion of gerbils is decimating vast areas of grasslands in China's north-western Xinjiang region, with some of the prairies completely destroyed by hundreds of rodent burrows, according to authorities in the region

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3162743.stm

[BoulderHead]

Goodness, I hope people don't start de-clawing these monsters! [:D]

[zoobyshoe]

We could lend them Richard Gere
in exchange for an agreement to
stop spying on our technology.

[LURCH]

"Possibly escaped from laboratories, the gerbils are thought to be the result of a failed attempt by the Chinese Space Program to develope a faster-than-light propulsion system that would involve feeding diet pills to the hyperkinetic rodents and placing them on exercise wheels..." [8)]