KEPALA BATAS: Every day at dusk, padi farmers watch helplessly as hundreds of ricefield rats plunder their fields.
Small dark silhouettes hop from padi stalk to padi stalk. They cleverly avoid poisoned bait and traps, and the farmers’ only hope are common barn owls, the natural predators of the rodents.
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