OVER a period of two months, a heavy rat population on a farm in the west of Scotland was treated with two anticoagulant poisons, ‘Diphacinone’ and ‘Warfarin’. Although the treatments were ...

Aside from humans, the laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) must be the most studied organism on the planet. According to the ISI Web of Science, over 100,000 publications since the year 2000 refer ...

A study published in the journal Pest Management Science sheds light on the behavior of gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) ...

I was offered the position of provincial plant pathologist for Alberta Agriculture by Joe Gurba, head of the crop protection ...

He doubts that he will ever have to pay up. The dominant rat in New York City is the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, also known as the brown rat. Brown rats are burrowing animals that are widest at ...

The social behaviors of the Rattus norvegicus, commonly known as the Norway rat, are far more complex than previously thought ...

Among all the videos the 'rats' shown are way too big for the ordinary brown rat or Rattus norvegicus, which is most commonly ...

South Africa is faced with an enormous and ever-increasing rat population that could cause serious diseases such as bubonic ...

A new study published in the SCI journal Pest Management Science sheds light on the behaviour of grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and explores ...

Psychobiology 23:26-36. [Content] Pinel JP, Mumby DG, Dastur FN, Pinel JG (1994) Rat (Rattus norvegicus) defensive behavior in total darkness: risk-assessment function of defensive burying. J Comp ...

The answer to the latter, it became clear, was much more than a T-shirt. The brown rat, or Rattus norvegicus, isn't all that different from the average New Yorker. It hates long commutes and loves ...