With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

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The author describes several characteristics of the Nile grass rat that make this diurnal murid rodent an attractive laboratory animal. In the laboratory, Nile grass rats are clearly diurnal (Fig.

Some of the rats in the experiment had been raised in a lab, while others lived in "enriched environments" - that is, they had more natural habitats. The rats raised in "enriched environments ...

One of them came after me with a needle the length of a turkey baster … I didn’t want to believe that I was a lab rat being experimented on. But after a while, I just couldn’t deny it ...

Jonathan Colam-French grew up not knowing he had hepatitis C A Lincolnshire man who was infected with hepatitis C from infected blood products as a child claims he was used as a "lab rat".

[Related: How science came to rely on the humble lab rat.] While the rats in the study could successfully identify the scents related to trafficked wildlife, there are still some limitations.

Their journey there had more wholesome beginnings: In the 1970s, Japanese children were obsessed with the cuddly star of the anime cartoon Rascal the Raccoon ... We almost had lab raccoons instead of ...

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

We purchased a batch of 40 adult Long-Evans male rats (300–350 g body weight) from a laboratory animal supplier for studies on sexual behavior. We kept the males in pairs in shoebox cages in a ...

Looking for new homes outside the lab, the department turned to the community to adopt them. Carol the rat perches atop the head of Elliot Moss, the daughter of Millersville University professor ...