As expected, rats housed in enriched environments – complete with toys, space and companions – learned to drive faster than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

McMahon points to a put-down from the 1960s, when Thomas Hoving, who was then the New York City Parks Commissioner, referred to the urban pigeon as "a rat with ... her "pet parent," says she's ...

Adopting a pet fills a home with joy, laughter, and love, and this October was no exception—it brought together animals and ...

Living with an “undomesticated” pet can be trying, especially when the day comes ... The reason for this is to avoid having to chase rats in the big cages before they have become used to us and the ...

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 ...