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 ...

(Van Loo) "I am not a fan of automatic drinkers for rodents although we use them for rabbits and guinea pigs, but of course their cages are 'open' at the front. People I know who do use automatic ...

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

When I walked into the lab one day, I noticed something unusual: The three driving-trained rats ran to the side of the cage, ...

Williams walks over to a large cage and picks out a fat gray rat ... Corrigan, the rat expert, doesn’t have a heart rat now, but he has owned pet rats in the past. Decades of trying to outsmart ...

Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year ...

If you have a pet rat, just remember to clean its cage regularly. Rats are social animals, so they can show affection just ...

A woman who kept more than 100 pet rats in dirty and overcrowded conditions ... Animal rescue officers found 38 rodents running loose and 74 others in cages, with the smell of ammonia "so ...

Rats can be taught simple tricks such as retrieving objects ... time spent playing with the pet outside of its cage. Affordability should also factor into your decision on pet ownership — anything ...

Because rats and mice are better able to take control of their microenvironment in an enriched cage, macroenvironmental conditions become much less influential. Such macroenvironmental conditions ...

He added that his pet ducks had been "going mad" as rats broke into their cages. The rats have also infested the neighbouring town of Karumba in the past few weeks and some residents worry they ...

He started with a normal cage that you can buy at the pet store to house rodents like hamsters and gerbils. But it couldn’t hold Houdini the rat. He learned how to use his nimble rat-fingers to ...