We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats ...

It involved training rats to drive little rat cars around a laboratory ... The study involved 11 rats, six of which were ...

They also had to wait in their transport cage for a few minutes before entering Rat Park, their play area. This became our ...

Harry Houdini was a world-famous escape artist from the late 1890s until his death in 1926. Houdini the rat was a great ...

(Cherry) "Suspended tubes can save animals from drowning and, therefore, should be regarded as basic furniture rather than as enrichment items for mouse and rat cages. The added enrichment effect is ...

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife species and remember targets for several months. Image APOPO Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

We kept the males in pairs in shoebox cages in a colony room maintained at approximately 22±4 °C on a reverse 12:12-h light/dark cycle with free access to commercial laboratory rat chow and water.

After the surgery, he gave the rat a subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of buprenorphine (0.08 mg/kg) and returned him to his cage. When checked the next morning, the rat was salivating and had some ...