A great horned owl died in Belmont this month after eating rodenticide, the second raptor this year to die from ingesting rat ...

Back in 2019, Kelly Lambert didn’t set out share the joys of driving with her rat friends. The researcher in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Richmond was primarily interested in ...

This research provides further support of how anticipation can reinforce behavior. Previous work with lab rats has shown that ...

Credit: Courtesy of University of Richmond/Cover Images Scientists at the University of Richmond have trained rats to drive tiny custom-made cars in exchange for sweet treats. The experiment began ...

Scientists taught rats to drive to a certain destination, but the rodents took a detour, suggesting they enjoy both the ...

Sarah Feng ’25 knew her rats intimately. She worked as an undergraduate researcher at the Arnsten Lab, a neuroscience lab at ...

Mole plants are reputed to repel rats, and as their name implies ... relaxing space into a pest-infested enclosure, so the use of Mole Plant is highly recommended." He added that the plant ...

As expected, rats housed in enriched environments – complete with toys, space and companions – learned to drive faster than those in standard cages. This finding supported the idea that ...

While poisoning reduced the rat population temporarily ... and put them into an enclosure at the NIH’s animal farm in Poolesville, Maryland, and within two years, the population had grown ...