- 8 years ago Sticky: Welcome to /t/rats!
- 8 years ago Sticky: Basic Rat Care Guide and F.A.Q.
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New York City Has Genetically Distinct ‘Uptown’ and ‘Downtown’ Rats
A graduate student sequenced rats all over Manhattan, and discovered how the city affects their genetic diversity.
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New York City Has Genetically Distinct ‘Uptown’ and ‘Downtown’ Rats
A graduate student sequenced rats all over Manhattan, and discovered how the city affects their genetic diversity.
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Black Death 'spread by humans not rats'
Human body lice, rather than rat fleas, spread plague during the Black Death, a study simulating the outbreak suggests.
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Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging
New study suggests that death rates don't rise with age, as they do for most animals
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Rats Can Trade Favors
The wildly social rodents will work for snacks. By Jessica Leigh Hester.
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Supposedly extinct kangaroo rat resurfaces after 30 years
Mexican mammal may have staged its comeback thanks to dwindling agriculture
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Non-Human Animals Can Mentally Replay Past Events: Study
A team of Indiana University researchers has reported the first evidence that non-human animals (rats) can replay a stream of multiple episodic memories. The study was published in the journal Current Biology.
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Meet the 'hero rats' clearing Cambodia's landmines
The sun is barely up when Thoeun Theap pulls into a clearing in the thick Cambodian bush with a giant African rat on the seat beside him. In a few minutes the two will be out there beyond the treeline, scouring the earth for the remnants of a war Mr Theap fled almost 40 years ago. He spends most mornings out here in no man's land with his team of pouched rat handlers from APOPO and de-miners from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC). A step in the wrong direction could see them lose a leg.
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Gene therapy reverses rat's paralysis
Scientists say they have taken a significant step towards the goal of giving paralysed people control of their hands again. The team at King's College London used gene therapy to repair damage in the spinal cord of rats. The animals could then pick up and eat sugar cubes with their front paws. It is early stage research, but experts said it was some of the most compelling evidence that people's hand function could one day be restored.
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Farmer Discovers Rat With Plant Growing Out Of Its Back
The rat was discovered in farmland in India, where experts say a soya bean seed had probably fallen into an open wound and germinated
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Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
Many specimens were discovered to be carrying bacteria and worms that can be passed on to humans, prompting experts to talk about a public health problem
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World's first human case of rat disease discovered
For the first time, a case of rat hepatitis E has been discovered in a human in Hong Kong. A 56-year-old man has been diagnosed with the disease, researchers from the University of Hong Kong said. It was not previously known the disease could be passed from rats to humans. "Previous laboratory experiments have found that rat hepatitis E virus cannot be transmitted to monkeys, and human hepatitis A virus cannot be transmitted to rats," said Dr. Siddharth Sridhar...
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Cats Are Surprisingly Bad at Killing Rats
Over a 79-day period, feral felines killed just two rats, instead opting to hunt less challenging prey
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Study: Like Humans, Rats Have Selective Amnesia
'Rats appear to have the same active forgetting ability as humans do – they forget memories selectively when those memories cause distraction,' research shows. While it is widely accepted and scientifically proven that human beings have a selective memory – we forget distracting memories to focus on what matters – little is known about the capacity to forget in other mammalian species.
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An Exotic Strain of Hepatitis Appears to Have Made The Leap From Rats to Humans in Hong Kong
A 70-year-old woman in Hong Kong has just become the second ever recorded case of rat-specific hepatitis E in humans, worrying Chinese researchers. By Michelle Starr.
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The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness
Morality exists only because we evolved the capacity to empathize. And empathy provides the best guide to moral action. But there are those who say that empathy is too selective to play such a central role in our moral system. People tend to empathize more readily with those who look, sound and behave like themselves. We feel the pain more acutely of those who resemble us. How then can empathy serve as a moral guide when it is morality’s role to lead us away from cruelty toward people outside our own group?
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Rats 'wrongly blamed' for Glasgow plague
A team at the University of Oslo said humans were the real culprits behind a plague outbreak in Glasgow 120 years ago.
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Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats
Fast and efficient, drones are a versatile new tool against invasive species
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How rats became an inescapable part of city living
In some parts of the world they are revered and protected; in other places they are captured and eaten for dinner. One thing is certain: They’re everywhere.
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How these cities became rat-free zones
It’s a stinky job but somebody’s got to do it – enter the rat detectives.