Female rats prefer gentler, more playful tickling than males, Bombail and his colleagues report April 15 in Biology Letters.

Harvard researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-driven framework to track and analyze how rats interact in social environments, offering a new tool for studying autism and other ...

Source: Zeynel Cebeci on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 license Most people don’t have a very high opinion of brown rats. These invasive rodents live wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas ...

Pet rats are intelligent, social, and affectionate companions that make wonderful additions to many households. Despite common misconceptions, these small rodents are clean and trainable and bond ...

Rats are fascinating study subjects because of their unique status in the scientific community and laboratory environment! They aren’t just good at solving mazes, they can comprehend complex concepts ...

There are always "surprises" emerging from studies of the cognitive, emotional, and moral lives of nonhuman animals (animals) and among the discoveries that received a good deal of attention was ...