Behavioral ecology has the potential to offer novel solutions to rodent management problems where traditional approaches using lethal control are either difficult or not sustainable.In this talk I will review the different ways by which managers might exploit rodent behaviors and interactions to reduce the impacts of pest rodents.I will then use two case studies to demonstrate how manipulating rodent behavior,without lethal control,has reduced the impacts of alien rodents.In the first study,I show how altering their foraging efficiency using associative learning techniques can reduce predation by black rats (Rattus rattus) on birds nests.In the second study I show how the impacts of black rats can be reduced by exploiting their weakness against native rodent competitors: reintroduction of locally extinct native rodents reduced black rat reinvasion rates and ultimately led to declines in rat predation on birds nests and other ecological benefits.I will conclude by suggesting other circumstances where the exploitation of behavioral ecology might prove a useful additional tool in the management of pest rodents.