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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s the sort of situational crucible familiarized by 21st-century horror. Instead of being forced by a hidden antagonist to ...

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 ...

The government says the city’s smallest apartments need more regulation. For some of Hong Kong’s poorest, that could mean ...

He started with a normal cage that you can buy at the pet store to house rodents like hamsters and gerbils. But it couldn’t hold Houdini the rat. He learned how to use his nimble rat-fingers to ...