maybe even three or four weeks across the entire year where those rats can be above ground foraging, acquiring more food and maybe squeezing out one or two more reproductive cycles.

Though mole rats spend most of their time excavating and foraging in their burrows, they occasionally emerge to search for seeds or other plants.

In the Middle Ages, they may have transmitted plague. NEW YORK CITY Rats prepare for a night of foraging in a wastewater drain. Rodentologist Bobby Corrigan estimates that there was as much as a ...

Rats are small mammals and limited by the cold, Richardson said. Warmer temperatures, especially in the winter, give them longer to be outside foraging and, crucially, longer to reproduce through ...

New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control. The city says its pilot program goes into effect April 26, distributing ...

Pictured is a LEGO Mindstorms robot programmed to simulate predatory attack on a rat seeking food in a semi ... the animal’s foraging behavior becomes perilously maladaptive, whereas an ...

Neurons in the rat postrhinal cortex encode the egocentric bearing and distance of the geometric center of the local environment during free foraging, as well as the animal's head direction in ...