Scientists continue to study naked mole rats for insights into aging, cancer resistance and social behavior, ensuring that these peculiar creatures will remain a subject of fascination for years ...

This will depend on the reader's own interests, but personally, I would have wished to see more about housing conditions and the impact of environmental enrichment on rat development and behavior.

the department decided to retire the rats — it would be difficult to use them for the same study in the future since they have already undergone conditioning for a certain behavior. Looking for ...

Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have shown that the brain can temporarily disconnect information about past experience from decision-making circuits, ...

Research has increasingly focused on how maternal drug use during pregnancy can influence the behavior and neurological development of rat pups. Studies have shown that exposure to methamphetamine ...

When a population of laboratory rats is allowed to increase in a confined space, the rats develop acutely abnormal patterns of behavior that can even lead to the extinction of the population ...

There are many different kinds of mole rats. The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst ...

(Abstract). 7. Brown, R.E. Hormonal control of odor preferences and urine-marking in male and female rats. Physiology and Behavior, 1978, 20, 21-24. 8. Brown, R.E. The 22-kHz pre-ejaculatory ...

As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied the behavior of animals. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats ...