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Aggressive rats battle over food after coronavirus quarantine closes restaurants
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been increased reports of rat cannibalism and infanticide in New York, as well as more rat complaints in residential areas — including in Chicago — as humans produce more food waste at home. Roving rat armies, including one caught on camera scavenging New Orleans’ empty streets, are …
Watch these lab rats drive tiny cars to get Froot Loops
Lab rats have been trained to do all sorts of things, from running mazes and pushing levers to playing hide and seek. Now, a handful of rats have learned how to drive, with scientists using Froot Loops to encourage the animals’ brief outings in a miniature car within a tiny rectangular arena. What sounds like …
Scientists taught rats to drive little rat-sized cars for mental health treatment research
Rats have learned how to drive and steer their own tiny cars in exchange for Froot Loops. That’s a feat on its own. But the real discovery in the study — and its wider implications for human mental health treatment — was found in their poop, per new findings published in Behavioural Brain Research. Rats …
Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRats drive little plastic cars around a lab in the US Learning to drive small cars helps rats feel less stressed, scientists found. Researchers at the University of Richmond in the US taught a group of 17 rats how to drive little plastic cars, in exchange for …
Watch these rats drive little cars for mental health research | CBS 4 – Indianapolis News, Weather, Traffic and Sports
Rats have learned how to drive and steer their own tiny cars in exchange for Froot Loops. That’s a feat on its own. But the real discovery in the study — and its wider implications for human mental health treatment — was found in their poop, per new findings published in Behavioural Brain Research. Rats …
