But female rats didn't, and even the rats that developed tumors lived longer than rats not exposed to the radiation.
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The radiation-exposed rats lived slightly longer than the control rats.
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I've worked with male rats, and I've worked with female rats.
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The repopulating rats are genetically differentWhile the return of the rats is nearly assured, my colleagues and I recently found that the repopulating rats are fundamentally different than the rats present before lethal control was carried out.
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According to one biologist, efforts to kill city rats could create a population of "super rats," since only the genetically hardiest rats survive the purges.
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According to Buffenstein, what makes mole-rats even stranger is that female rats responsible for breeding actually seem less likely to die than non-breeding rats.
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In a new study published in CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics, researchers in China grafted the heads of smaller rats onto the necks of larger rats because we all know that rats with two heads are better than rats with one.
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What we can learn from lab rats that don't show empathy for other rats.
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The recordings captured 15 different snakes, 21 identified kangaroo rats and 17 unidentified rats.
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Rats breed like rabbits; as this alarming Rentokil graphic shows, two rats in an ideal environment can turn into 482 million rats over a period of three years.
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But where Rats was mostly interested in providing information about rats — how do they live, what do humans do about them, how does Spurlock feel about rats, etc.
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Similarly, between 2% and 7% of the irradiated male rats developed heart tumors, compared with only about 2% of the irradiated female rats and none of the control rats.
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And a white rat raised among black and white rats rescued rats of both colors.
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Pregnant rats were also more susceptible to death from Rift Valley fever than nonpregnant rats.
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Rats seem to enjoy running, and these rats ran a few miles almost every day.
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The researchers first accustomed young rats to play and tickling, which the rats would invite.
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If making male rats horny and hungry isn't enough, the contraption also emulates the sounds of baby rats to fool female rats into thinking they're in full-on maternal mode.
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The list of loyalists turned rats or potential loyalists turned rats in Trump world is growing.
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Last year, scientists published the results of a study where they gave MDMA to male rats, female rats, and male and female rats that had had their testicles and ovaries removed.
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The UCI scientists found that while the brains of the placebo-treated rats were noticeably different from those of the young rats, the brains of the ampakine-treated rats were not.
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Street rats, she explained, are brown rats, which are said to be less civil and healthy, and are different from "fancy" rats, the species that most New Yorkers look to adopt.
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Based on his research on the geographic movements of rats and their DNA, he also found that Manhattan rats were similar to rats originally from Great Britain and are likely their descendants.
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Grain attracts rats, and rats attracted — well, not cats, exactly, but their wildcat ancestor, Felis silvestris lybica.
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According to Rattitude, the site 'Where Rats Rule,' rats are encouraged to "use caution" when eating avocados.
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By taking rats on ships to various islands, the rats then devastate the ecology of those islands.
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Rats — many, many rats — can eat power and fiber optic cables and bring down the whole system.
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It's also odd that increased cancer was seen only in male rats and not in female rats.
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Rats that were administered DMT gained more bodyweight while simultaneously consuming less food than the control rats.
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After studying brain cell activity of anesthetized rats, Komisaruk developed a method of studying neurons in awake rats.
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I had to be prepared to feed them rats, which means handling dead rats on a regular basis.
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The rat studies also were somewhat inconsistent, with female rats not showing the same results as male rats.
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It's about rats, yes — and rat poison experts and rat hunters and people who keep rats as pets.
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Then in the greatest game of Survivor telephone ever, Ken rats out Lucy to Jessica, who then rats out Ken to Lucy, who rats out Jessica to Ken, who then gets furious at Jessica.
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Studies in rats suggest that nicotine hits adolescent animals harder: young female rats that could press a lever to deliver nicotine directly into their bloodstreams took more hits of the stuff than adult rats did.
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The ampakine-treated rats spent less time exploring new areas than the placebo-treated rats, which the researchers attribute to the ampakine-treated rats having better memories and better strategies when it came to exploring.
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By analyzing the remains of brown rats that lived in and around Toronto between 1790 and 1890, researchers have determined that city rats enjoyed a higher-quality and more stable diet than rural rats did.
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Studies on rats are considered of only partial reliability, because lab rats have their own unpredictable vulnerabilities to cancer.
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ShutterstockChinese scientists have created "cyborgized" rats that perform better on maze tests than normal rats and a computer algorithm.
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While in Rajasthan, India, rats are worshiped at the Karni Mata Temple, also known as The Temple of Rats.
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Three rats were used for the operation — a smaller rat who acted as the donor, and two larger rats.
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The rats that were eating the nitrated meat showed greater hyperactivity in a new environment than the control rats.
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In one early study of rats, limiting methionine by 80% increased the rats' lifespans by an average of 43%.
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And the dangers aren't entirely clear-cut: note that the exposed rats actually lived longer than the unexposed rats.
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The researchers treated six older rats with plasma from young mice, and six older rats with plasma from older mice.
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Rats sometimes help free other trapped rats and elephants rescue other elephants when they've fallen into a hole or water.
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A Denmark soccer team was fined some serious cheese after fans pelted opposing players with dead rats ... giant dead rats.
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The rats are up for adoption through the Bay Area nonprofit Rattie Ratz, a group that rescues and rehabilitates rats.
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The rate of cancer in the exposed rats was actually in line with what you'd expect in rats in general.
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Rat Film is about rats, yes — and rat poison experts and rat hunters and people who keep rats as pets.
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Just as in Aesop's tale, the city rats benefited from the largess of human waste, whereas country rats scraped by.
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It's a film about rats, yes — and rat poison experts and rat hunters and people who keep rats as pets.
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More interestingly, the researchers also found the microbiota of cycled rats was almost indistinguishable from rats fed a constant diet of junk, with both groups' microbiota significantly different from those in the rats fed a healthy diet.
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Rats are not just pests, but a part of the city's cultural fabric: Louis CK has a great bit about watching rats fuck, and there are people who gather to watch their dogs hunt rats in alleys.
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Next, they fed specially made dried meat without nitrates to another group of rats, finding these rats didn't develop any symptoms.
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Some people will say that rats are harmless, even that rats are more afraid of you than you are of them.
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Rats treated with synthetic oxytocin after being taught to be afraid of a stimuli were less afraid than the untreated rats.
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"Rats have to do very little work to get their food," he said about rats that raid apartment building garbage piles.
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The signal only spiked in non-risky rats, however; it was negligible in rats that always gambled for the sucrose windfall.
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These critics showed that rats would use the lever to free anything making a loud noise — not just their fellow rats.
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The installation also included blankets for the family of rats with whom he shared his cell — yes, they were live rats.
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Rat Film is a about rats, yes — and rat poison experts and rat hunters and people who keep rats as pets.
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The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness What we can learn from lab rats that don't show empathy for other rats.
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Norway rats were almost certainly not involved, but even black rats may have had a significantly smaller role than previously suspected.
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"Rats have a high reproductive rate, and if there's rubbish around, you'll have rats no matter what you do," he said.
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In the three decades Richard has been hunting rats with his dogs, he says he must have killed thousands of rats.
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Rats did die every so often, but the researchers couldn't find any spike in the risk of dying as rats got older.
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They bought their own equipment — autoclaves, rats for experiments — and ordered fetal tissue from a company called StemExpress to implant in rats.
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For the study, researchers gave six nondiabetic male rats an oral insulin capsule and three nondiabetic male rats traditional injections of insulin.
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Training started at a very young age, when the rats were just 3 weeks old—a time when rats are naturally playful.
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Diamond placed a cat outside a cage of rats, and found that rats raised in this condition did worse on rat-friendly cognitive tests—running complicated mazes and the like—than did rats kept away from the sight of cats.
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Critics noted there was no clear reason why an actual increased risk would only be seen in male rats, but not female rats.
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Rats would push the lever to "free" their fellow rats, but wouldn't push the lever if a block of Styrofoam were being hoisted.
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While they might kill a few rats, the populations of rats are so big that there's no way the cats can ever repress them.
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After selecting the 15 most tickle-loving rats, the scientists tickled these particular rats even more, and then took photos of how they looked.
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Life is even more perilous for albino rats, who have no camouflage protections in an urban setting and are far smaller than subway rats.
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He and his team injected cardiosphere-derived cells from newborn rats into the hearts of 22-month-old rats -- that's elderly for a rat.
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Rats are sneaky rodents that can evade your house and live right under your nose for months, but they're rats so they gotta go.
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In a city as densely populated as Tokyo, it's a prime piece of real-estate not just for humans, but for rats—ninja rats.
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When she tested rats that came from a particular neighborhood with high rates of human MRSA cases, the rats carried the same MRSA strain.
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Adult worms live in rats—snails and slugs get infected by eating rat droppings—rats get infected by eating parasite-laden snails and slugs.
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Studies revealed that healthy rats became obsessed with drug-dispensing levers, but rats whose reward circuits had been disrupted showed little to no interest.
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" 'Laughing' Rats and the Evolutionary Antecedents of Human Joy?" published in 2003 in Physiology & Behavior, reported that rats would emit ultrasonic calls when tickled.
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The EFSA scientists cited studies showing that 3-MCPD could cause kidney problems in rats, and that GE could cause tumors in rats and mice.
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Seeing a bunch of rats scurrying together is never good news, but what the rats in Stranger Things 3 are up to is extremely strange.
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In risk-taking rats, however, those receptors sent a much fainter signal, so the rats kept making high-stakes choices even if they lost out.
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Strangely enough, only male rats showed these increases — and even more puzzling, the control group rats (which received no radiation) tended to live shorter lives.
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These rats drive tiny cars—for science Most humans hate being stuck in traffic jams, but a new study shows rats might actually like it.
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Given to Riverside Park by the Urban Cat League to hunt rats, Scaredy instead "lets the rats eat out of her bowl," the film says.
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After testing the maze with three control groups of rats, the researchers noticed that three main variables affected how the rats navigated the honeycomb platforms.
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The second factor was how far away the reward was from the rats in the maze: the further the reward, the worse the rats' performance.
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Toxoplasmosis-infected prey animals like chimps and rats, which are usually repulsed by the urine of predators like leopards and rats, are attracted to it instead.
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The researchers took photos of the happy rats and compared them to photos of the same rats when they were forced to listen to unpleasant noise.
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The researchers found that 2% to 3% of the hundreds of male rats that were irradiated developed brain tumors, compared with none of the control rats.
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But he says the study's conclusions about rats don't tell us enough about indications for humans since the physiological comparisons between humans and rats are unreliable.
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Fordham University grad student Matthew Combs found that the rodents stick to certain areas: you'll find uptown rats and downtown rats, with a break in midtown.
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Research carried out on rats has shown that a fear that's stimulated by THC increases when the rats are in a new or potentially stressful environment.
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What the team found was that DMT may have caused "robust antidepressant-like responses" in the rats, with immobility time significantly decreased in female rats especially.
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Rats, as it happens, are not shed dwellers, at least not typically, according to Matthew Combs, Ms. Parkins' fiancé, whose Ph.D. examined how populations of urban brown rats are related to each other and tracked their movements through the city (yes, there are uptown and downtown rats).
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Although rats and cats have adversarial relationships outside the terrarium – inside the kittens are the perfect size to have supervised romp and play sessions with the rats.
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In 2013, Janda and his team followed up with a second study on rats, in which vaccinated rats actually stopped pressing levers to receive hits of heroin.
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Then in 1962, George Rice and Priscilla Gainer at Agnes Scott College went a step further, arguing that rats would try to save other rats in trouble.
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The Post may run headlines like "Rats have invaded New York City," but rats have been in New York as long as the city itself has existed.
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Public enemy number oneWhile rats — Rattus norvegicus, to be specific — in New York City are not unfamiliar to residents, the Churchill Square rats had become too comfortable.
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Bucher said the effect likely only showed up in the male rats because they were larger, and likely absorbed more radiation than the female rats or mice.
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In the experiment, the researchers played various sounds — sirens and beeps — for different rats, and trained the rats to press a lever whenever they heard a specific sound.
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Then he played the tone once to remind the rats of the previous day's learning, and immediately injected a drug that blocked protein synthesis into the rats' brains.
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What they found was that the stressed out rats drank significantly more alcohol than non-stressed rats and increased their alcohol intake over the course of several weeks.
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Teachers complain about mildew, rats Teachers have complained of mildew taking over ceilings and walls, damage to school buildings and equipment and rats running rampant through the halls.
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Cats may eat rats, but they also deter rats from coming near by, as cats mark their territory, not with urine, but by simply rubbing up against things.
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And yet researchers have bred rats who will literally work out for alcohol, bench-pressing a bar repeatedly for a refill long after sober rats have given up.
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The group compared the DNA of our rats with that of international rats — rodents from 30 different locations, as far and wide as the Galápagos Islands and Japan.
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Cat predation of rats has been studied before: Researchers in New Zealand, for example, analyzed scat from 229 cats and learned that almost all of them ate rats.
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In that scenario, you're probably dead, and the last thing you'll see is a bunch of animals being engulfed by biting rats while they're simultaneously trampling on the rats.
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In terms of exposure to rodents, the woman said she hadn't knowingly been in contact with rats or their feces, or seen any signs of rats in her home.
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Additionally, rats that were raised in environments where there were more things to interact with had an easier time passing the driving test than rats raised in normal cages.
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Speaking of those two rats (yep, they're rats, at this point): They're cruising down the freeway in Coleman's fancy car, holding hands and thinking they got away with everything.
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He found that blood tests showed that rats that were food deprived had double the blood level of a THC metabolite compared to the rats that were left alone.
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The trainers feed rats a treat whenever the rodents hear a clicking sound, so that rats will eventually associate the scent of pangolins and other animals with edible rewards.
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She said that in the rats housed above sea level, they saw depression-like behavior in the female rats—what scientists use as proxies for depression in animal models.
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Springer said yes: "Notably, humans and rats respond similarly to tobacco smoke exposure, and rats respond similarly to tobacco and marijuana smoke exposure (longer duration for marijuana)," he said.
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In this test, the rats also exhibited beneficial results of DMT use—retaining this fear for a shorter amount of time compared to rats that had not been dosed.
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So Bruce Alexander, a Canadian researcher, decided to see what would happen if drugs were instead offered in a bigger cage in which rats could interact with other rats.
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The rats in this story seem a background curiosity at first, something we can ignore just as people in cities ignore the rats covertly overrunning the subways and parks.
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" - Ellie, 227 "Garbage pile out back with rats.
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" - Mike, 36 "Squeaky dirty rats scampering on tracks.
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Many sugar-treated rats who are later exposed to drugs, such as cocaine and opiates, demonstrate dependent behaviors towards the drugs compared to rats who did not consume sugar beforehand.
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In 1972 another paper reported, even more spectacularly, that elderly rats which shared blood with young ones lived four to five months longer than similarly old rats which did not.
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We've had pizza rat, we've had double pizza rats, and now, thanks to the untamed wilds of New York City, we have a new set of internet stars: churro rats.
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In one previous study, neural stem cells injected into the spinal cords of rats with ALS delayed the onset of the disease and extended the rats' lifespan by 17 days.
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The study found that as the rats began to associate more lights and sounds with the higher-risk options, the rats began leave safety for the chance at scoring bigger.
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Instead of simply asking where New York City's brown rats came from, Dr. Munshi-South realized he might be able to figure out where the world's brown rats came from.
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In a variant of the experiment, a white rat raised among only black rats would save a black rat from a trap — but would fail to save other white rats.
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But New Zealand rats weigh an average of 150 grams, or about five ounces, whereas rats in the most recent experiment in New York were more than twice as large.
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Daddy you a just ruler, Daddy you so brave, Daddy, yes, we'd be dead without you, we'd be dead on the street like rats, yes, we is like rats exactly.
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A Columbia University study published in November in Science Advances showed that rats exposed to alcohol were far more likely than other rats to push a lever that released cocaine.
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A team of data analysts tries to anticipate where rats may be so city workers can proactively put poison and newspapers in their holes (with no apologies to Chicago Tribune reporters.) The city also launched a public awareness campaign stating "if rats can't feed, rats can't breed," slapping up scary yellow warning signs.
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And when compared to untreated rats, the vaccine shortened and delayed the stimulant effects of increasing MDPV doses on the rats' movement for up to three months, when the experiments ended.
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But his goal wasn't to eradicate the public health nuisance, but to use the rats for their DNA — which he got from cutting off about an inch of the rats' tails.
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Unlike among the mice, however, the rats that had run displayed excellent long-term memory now, easily locating the escape platform just as rapidly as those rats that had been sedentary.
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But by employing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to manipulate neurons, the scientists stimulated brain cells with those receptors, heightening the "loss" signal and turning risky rats into safer rats.
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The rats with low natural fitness were about four times as likely to develop breast cancer as the rats with high fitness were, and showed more tumors once the disease began.
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The men descend to discover that rats have turned the basement into their kingdom; the farther they travel into the bowels of this underworld, the bigger and weirder the rats become.
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Of course, these are mice and rats — not humans.
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Humans usually get the virus from contact with infected rats or their urine and feces, says Rollin, which happens when people try to trap the rats or if they ingest contaminated food.
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The rats that loaded up on sugar, but who did not undergo early life trauma, showed similar changes in their brains to the rats that were traumatized but were not offered sugar.
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The rats with the most alcoholism-associated genes pressed their bar until they got their reward, while the other rats gave up after a few tries and went to drink water instead.
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McQuiston explained that the CDC has been tracing back to where rats may have come from, and tracing out to where rats may have gone from the facilities where Seoul virus infections occurred.
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And indeed, when Yolken's team looked at the guts of nitrate-fed rats, they found clear changes in the gut microbiome, namely an increase of certain kinds of bacteria, compared to normal rats.
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The Pied Piper is about a man who is hired to rid the town of Hamelin of its rats, which he does by playing a tune that drives the rats to their death.
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One developed in the 1960s for rats, Norbamide, got close, but it was so fast-acting that rats would start to feel the effects before they had actually eaten enough to kill them.
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Ultimately, the rats who drank the rodent cola were more dehydrated and had worse kidney injury than the rats who drank plain water, and even those who had consumed the water with stevia.
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I moved out of my last apartment, in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood, after it became infested with rats in the wake of Hurricane Sandy; the Gowanus Canal overflowed, which drove the rats farther inland.
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His results were striking: While rats in cramped, isolated cages preferred drug-laced water, rats in healthier, more social environments preferred plain water — even when the drug-laced water was made intensely sweet.
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There was also "some evidence" of brain and adrenal gland tumors, again in the male rats, but the exposed female rats, and male and female mice, did not have consistent patterns of disease.
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To gauge the effects of environment on performance, Dr. Rosenzweig and his colleagues had begun raising rats in so-called enriched cages, outfitted with ladders and wheels, in the company of other rats.
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There's the fiscal conservatives, the Christian right, and they left a little bedroom in there for the white supremacists… But they're like rats, and now the rats have taken over the fucking house.
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But the problem is, everybody is trying to catch rats.
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Cats and rats have been photographed sharing piles of trash.
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The government did not say when the rats were found.
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They began with two closely related species: rats and mice.
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Run your smear pieceBut the leagal eagles see you. Rats.
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Facial creams made out of rats, treatments of whale fat.
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PAVLICH: Rats can still smell the burrito on the train.
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"I thought Rat Bite Fever was something wild rats carried."
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The rats got into the election commission offices as well.
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Sprague Dawley rats are a common type of lab rat.
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So called control rats were raised nearby without radiation exposure.
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For naked mole rats, these experiments could take even longer.
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Only the rats and their precious pizza know for sure.
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But the Mill Rats slowly went about building their brand.
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And Noah, he did have two rats on that ark.
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Recent Ebola outbreaks have come from bats, rats, and gorillas.
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He was writing a book about rats being a problem.
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For rats, life is full of dangers, large and small.
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The Nazis called Jews rats, Rwandans Hutus called Tutsis cockroaches.
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The cooler rats were just fine with their functioning livers.
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Soon, the rats froze in terror whenever the bell chimed.
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How infections begin The parasite can fully mature in rats.
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The old rats appeared newly invigorated after receiving their injections.
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Similar old rats received a placebo injection of saline solution.
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No stranger to shooting bugs, rattlesnakes, rats, mice, birds, etc.
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The implant used in the rats is similar in nature.
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One cast member told us the reason ... "No rats allowed."
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Stem cells injected into rats seem to protect these glia.
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Three refugees complained to CNN of rats in their tents.
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"Rats," Ghost BEST ROCK ALBUM Rainier Fog, Alice in Chains
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When I woke up, there were two rats on me.
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One band kept it simple and went just for Rats.
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I mean, completely, 100 percent, dirty dog rats her out.
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"Rats are a highly capable sponge for disease," Himsworth said.
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At one point, exterminators found 400 rats in her yard.
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Even chicken wire was no match for the invading rats.
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Even this scent of a cat can make rats scatter.
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Ants, like people and rats, can become addicted to morphine.
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"Their sheep were born hairless... like baby rats," said King.
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Currently, Andersen has two other male rats, Gucci and Mango.
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In Massachusetts, officers used a machine with rats nesting inside.
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The bugs went extinct at the hands of the rats.
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There are around 2 million rats in New York City.
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Plus, we'll never win the fight against the city's rats.
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It's a disgustingly entertaining look at rats around the world.
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They conditioned rats to associate a tone with a shock.
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The scientists then fed the rats a bunch of blueberries.
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Rats ... Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.
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Rats and decomposing animals can spread disease, the doctor added.
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Her previous feature, "Beach Rats," also centers on a teenager.
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Civilians who couldn't evacuate starved, some eating rats and clay.
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You and Lady Friend are acting like true gym rats.
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There were spiders and rats being cradled like precious objects.
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But, uh, a bunch of rats ate you anyway. Whoops.
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Rats and beetles may also have contributed to the deforestation.
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Rats forcibly deprived of REM sleep die within five weeks.
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Naked mole rats went underground and learned to work together.
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And they can benefit humans by eating rodents like rats.
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Of course, this study involved rats, which are not people.
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"The rats are coming out of the sewers," she said.
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Approximately 140 of the rats are now up for adoption.
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That means swabbing cats, dogs, squirrels, pigeons, rats and cockroaches.
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Rats can transmit disease, damage city infrastructure, and harass residents.
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The Australian government subtly declared the rats' extinction in February.
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In the fall, rats set a sedan ablaze in Manhattan.
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Rats are always the first ones off a sinking ship.
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There were no such significant findings in the female rats.
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The resulting outdoor defecation feeds roaches for rats to eat.
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Craftsmen apply an herbal solution that repels rats and insects.
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When cats appeared on the scene, rats mostly just hid.
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No differences were seen in the female rats at all.
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But there's another, more traditional method to eliminate rats: hunting.
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There, the ecologist has a colony of free-roaming rats that he tracks using RFID chips, and he hopes the data will help him understand the "silent language" of rats, through scents called pheromones.
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Lambert and her team uncovered another interesting tidbit: the rats that drove themselves had higher levels of dehydroepiandrosterone and were less stressed than rats that were driven around as passengers in remote-controlled cars.
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Unlike cat and dogs, age was negatively related to satisfaction with rats, meaning that young children found satisfaction in rats that waned as they became older, especially once they passed the age of 17.
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In February, 9-year-old Fernando Hernandez was diagnosed with hantavirus, an infectious disease that's normally spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse.
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When the time came for him to create a documentary based on Robert Sullivan's best-selling book about the rats of New York City, Rats, he decided to make it into a horror film.
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Rollo saves him by trying to drown the wildcat, but almost drowns himself in the process• Owl - encased in cement • sinuous the Adder - murdered by the rats• The rats try to murder Toad pic.twitter.
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With the eagles and rats fighting alongside each other, there won't be any issue of the eagles swooping/eating the rats, yet they'll swoop in and knock out the other animals trying to kill me.
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In the latest study, published Thursday in the the FASEB Journal, a team of researchers reported that blood plasma from young rats reduced a type of liver injury in older rats, called ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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Higher than normal levels of the hormones corticosterone and DHEA were found in the rats' feces, suggesting that not only were the rats stimulated, but were releasing hormones to help cancel out the stressful feelings.
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And adolescent rats given nicotine also showed more signs of activity in regions of the brain related to feelings of reward than adult rats did, a 2009 literature review reports in the journal Pharmacological Therapy.
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If there's a real star of "Rats," it's Ed Sheehan, a gruff Brooklyn exterminator who puffs away on a cigar while talking about how smart rats are -- and how much harder they're becoming to kill.
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The results of the experiment tally with the results of other experiments—like the fact that anesthetized rats kept at warmer temperatures are unable to shake off the anesthesia than rats kept at cooler temperatures.
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Self-perpetuating synthetic genetic machines called gene drives could someday alter not just one gene or one rat or even a population of rats but an entire species—of rats, mosquitoes, ticks, or any creature.
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The analogy became explicit in "Learned Helplessness in Rats" (19733), an installation that consists of a Plexiglas maze with videos of wandering rats and a teen-age boy with a drum set, thunderously whaling away.
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It's hard to quantify just how much money rats are costing health systems, Corrigan said, because most people sickened by rats have flu-like symptoms, and many don't know they've been exposed to a rat.
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Dr. Diamond was an instructor at Cornell University in the late 1950s when she read a paper in Science magazine showing that rats who navigated mazes quickly had a different brain chemistry than slower rats.
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The team then wanted to know how the disease was able to cross over from rats into a human and believe the man caught the disease from rats infesting a rubbish chute near his home.
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Meanwhile, acupuncture given somewhere besides HT7 didn't help the rats, and when the rats were given naloxone—a drug that suppresses the brain's response to opioids—the effects of acupuncture at HT7 weren't seen either.
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But these guys of the Mill Rats team are having fun.
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But when the rats searched the area, they found another landmine.
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But as things were, his Twitter followers were his lab rats.
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For now though, it's only been shown to work in rats.
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"We're like rats, basically," wrote his sister Rachel, a newspaper columnist.
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Worldship passengers: cockroaches, dogs, Maine coon cats, rats, crickets, and tarantulas.
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Neuralink has already tested its system successfully on rats and monkeys.
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Several previous outbreaks reported in the US occurred in wild rats.
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Authorities have since ordered that police stations be cleared of rats.
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Initially, rats were trained to receive water by pushing a lever.
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He wrote a book about rats, based on the Chinese zodiac.
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After a few years, there are just billions of these rats.
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Other studies found that chimps and rats may find laughter contagious.
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Squiciari and Greenan confirmed rats greet them along the route too.
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Our least favorite part of the day was seeing the rats.
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My guess is that she has accrued these rats over time.
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It also increases the risk of rats whispering in your ear.
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The Mill Rats now charter their travel through a bus company.
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And these rats are NOT about to share with each other.
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Neuroimaging studies and studies of rats with electrodes have been important.
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The answer might annoy all of you gym rats out there.
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"Our heroine's fears, unarticulated, gnaw at her like rats," narrates Finck.
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The apartment was full of rats and cockroaches…you name it.
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The walls had gaps, allowing tarantulas, rattlesnakes and rats to invade.
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She explored Ms. DesRoche's living room, and dominated the other rats.
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In the Detroit Public Schools, they have overcrowded classrooms and rats.
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Training dogs and rats to find mines is slow and expensive.
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I can totally see why rats would be the stoner crowd.
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And studies have shown that satiereal suppresses the appetites of rats.
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The sounds, the smell — maybe that's why the rats were there.
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Walden said rats on ships probably brought the disease to Louisiana.
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We'd look like naked mole rats and no one wants that.
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He also claimed that the rats didn't seem afraid of humans.
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One enterprising group of scientists also measured this phenomenon in rats.
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Until now, studying rats in the concrete jungle has been difficult.
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And when the lights come on, the rats run in holes.
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Studies showed that they could cause cancer in mice and rats.
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Researchers exposed both mice and rats to varying amounts of radiation.
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If you keep moving, maybe the rats will find another target.
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And even when no one's stalking you, there are the rats.
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You'll slow down time and call down swarms of devouring rats.
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St Austell and Newquay MP Steve Double branded them "flying rats."
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It was obvious, they claimed, that Seralini used the wrong rats!
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In the unwelcome-news category: City rats are out in droves.
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Do we believe that cellphone radiation exposure makes rats live longer?
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We've learned about some of these possibilities from studies of rats.
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Mr. Jones said he did not consider rats bad or evil.
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And if we can design sterile mosquitoes, what about sterile rats?
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As some noted, rats can be sweet animals and lovely pets.
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It turns city kids from feeble hairless rats into hardened mercenaries.
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Some of those women were as nocturnal and untrustworthy as rats.
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"You had to fight the rats for a seat," he said.
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The rats freed their companions even when social contact was prevented.
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But the brown rats of Europe became the true globe-trotters.
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A month later, he uploaded footage of him Tasering dead rats.
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"This wasn't a place you had rats before," Mr. Castillo said.
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"The point is that these rats are already existing," Ferrando said.
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"It was rats, pigs, babies all over the place," he said.
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"It's just an all-night buffet for the rats," he said.
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You have this armada of birds throwing rats around like weapons.
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To find out, they first gathered groups of mice and rats.
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It has been found in rats worldwide, including the United States.
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One video showed some of the rats clustered on the dashboard.
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Oddly, human vectors are never implicated, only the rats and fleas.
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The answer is that they scrap like rats in a sack.
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Did you know a group of rats is called a mischief?
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Experiments were performed on rats, monkeys and, in some cases, humans.
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Dolphins, rats and vampire bats have been all observed giving help.
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"They left us like rats in a hole," said the Rev.
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Rats, for instance, can find their nests and eat their young.
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This confirms the disease can be passed from rats to humans.
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The rats began to jump like rabbits and sing like birds.
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They live rent-free, with a constant supply of food. Rats.
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LIGHTS ON, RATS OUT A Memoir By Cree LeFavour 312 pp.
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"A lot of people confuse rats with mice," Dr. Parsons said.
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Only cleaning up the garbage — the rats' food — will do that.
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Except instead of rats, imagine unpleasant face creams with terrible textures.
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It has nothing to do with rats, like non-union labor?
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As Inverse wrote, this is complicated: A decade-long National Toxicology Program (NTP) study using over 25,25 rats and mice as test subjects released in 25 did find "clear evidence" 2G and 3G radio frequency radiation (RFR) caused "tumors in the hearts of male rats," as well as "some evidence of tumors" in the brains and adrenal glands of male rats.
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Research has shown that nerve cells grown from human embryonic stem cells and transplanted into rats with the equivalent of Parkinson's disease proliferate and start to release dopamine, which is what such rats and people lack.
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He says what he is going to do and now, people are not - the left, the Democrats, I call them, demon rats, not Democrats, demon rats, okay they are not happy to wait until the next election.
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Both the normal rats and the computer required roughly the same number of steps to complete the task, but the cyborg rats took fewer steps, which the researchers say is a sign of more efficient problem solving.
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Meanwhile, the rats who consumed a quantity of fructose that would amount to roughly one liter of soda per day in humans only got out of the maze half as quickly as the other groups of rats.
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Health officials recommend washing hands thoroughly after contact with areas where rats may live, always wearing shoes while taking garbage to the trash compactor room, and avoiding contact with rats or places where they may have urinated.
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For the first few months, rats were almost daily visitors, coming in through unseen holes or through a hole in the bathroom that Ms. Garcia plugged with a steel-wool scouring pad and mints, which rats hate.
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"There are rats, there's rodents, there's dripping water, there's holes," she said.
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Then it morphs into Gen Z. And they are becoming mall rats.
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Rats and other whiskered animals use senses that we don't yet possess.
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We can hear rats or mice or something scurrying around the basement.
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And unlike Facebook, it has never treated users, literally, like laboratory rats.
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Kristof was working on a column about rats who sniff land mines.
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At one sortie per minute, those rats are dead in an afternoon.
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The rats could still do the task— they just didn't want to.
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Together they live in a 250-year-old trailer infested by rats.
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Frogs poured out of drainpipes, hordes of rats came out to play.
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"Some people hate rats, some hate roaches, I hated poverty," he said.
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The team fitted the rats with sensors that measured their brain activity.
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"Anytime you put down food, the rats will eat it," he said.
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The novel starts when Dr Rieux, the protagonist, starts noticing dead rats.
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They just look like NYC rats, which I guess is the point.
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"Even the rats in #nyc are on trend," she wrote on Instagram.
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Thankfully, Lambert and her cohorts gave these rats small cars to drive.
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The idea was they wanted to get rats out of the cities.
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Some may use it simply to orient, such as blind mole rats.
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But even if oxygen is low, the naked mole rats are … fine.
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At Harbour Station that night, the Mill Rats continued to play well.
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But the challenge is — there are two rats and only one churro.
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The rats would run around randomly with no preference for any area.
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The researchers only tested the rats' cognitive performance after a few days.
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Of the 171 rats tested, 23 percent were infected with the disease.
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Of the 57, a third were tests in rats, mice or worms.
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Researchers who dressed rats in woolly trousers to understand their sex lives.
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The rats were then returned to normal bedding until they were weaned.
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Studies on rats suggest DCX can break down within hours of death.
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Image: Janet Stephens/Wikimedia CommonsLab rats probably don't have many deep thoughts.
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Andrew: Yeah, but these guys are cuter than rats, womp or otherwise.
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The dendrites were as long and numerous as those of young rats.
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And invasive introduced species, like those Polynesian rats, can drive natives extinct.
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In addition to vinyl records, Connick, 49, not particularly enamored by rats.
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These adorable little rats with wings are smarter than you think. Beware.
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Not that it would help much, because these rats can basically fly.
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"I've used domesticated Norwegian and Black rats in many videos," she said.
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To find out, they performed an experiment with mosquitoes, rats, and chickens.
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Patients must bring their own sheets and share their rooms with rats.
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And when the money runs out it's rats leaving a sinking ship.
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No female rats and none of the mice had increased cancer rates.
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Obviously rats only care about reproduction, swans are exclusive—those make sense.
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Of course, that makes rats the perfect anti-hero mascot for musicians.
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But can a study based on rats adequately be applied to humans?
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In this experiment, the rats consumed significantly less morphine and never died.
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All of these rats have smooth tails with small scales on them.
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Abramovich gets in touch and eventually "embeds" himself in the Rats' lifestyle.
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Plus, rats are far less likely to bite their owners than hamsters.
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The cats have caused rats to disappear from their yards, as well.
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It turns out rats, like New Yorkers, are partial to their neighborhoods.
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He wanders among us, village to village, hauling his sack of rats.
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A pile of garbage next to the building attracted mice and rats.
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It is carried mostly in the urine of rats and other animals.
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There were no differences in brain tumors in the GSM-exposed rats.
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Do we believe that the control rats were somehow cured of cancer?
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" "We already have everybody, you know — the rats are leaving the ship.
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All but one of the rats, a saline control, survived the operation.
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And every time I think of swamps, I think of swamp rats.
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Risky rats gambled on the iffier lever more than half the time.
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His current project, teased in the final pages, is called Ah Rats.
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"We scurried around the room like rats in a cage," she said.
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To explore the altered microbiome hypothesis further, the team turned to rats.
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In their experiment, rats were placed in two adjoining see-through cells.
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Deep in the night, those warnings scuttle around my mind like rats.
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Many of them bear the marks of fights with other brown rats.
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It seems that rats had been living in the second-floor ceilings.
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The remaining bits are consumed by smaller detritivores like rats and beetles.
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They gave the highveld mole rats a drug that blocks this channel.
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But that problem did not occur in female rats, or any mice.
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There are leaky ceilings, smelly trash and big, fat rats to sidestep.
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Not even cars are safe: Rats have chewed clean through engine wires.
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And the ones with exceptional abilities are usually cartoon rats or mice.
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Last month, a Freedom Party official wrote a poem calling immigrants rats.
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The winner: the Pizza Rats, named after New York's most infamous rodent.
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They were best kept down with the surplus furniture and the rats.
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The rats in a control group were raised alone in bare cages.
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Wegener had Reiniger help him animate wooden puppet rats for the film.
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But their newborn cells behaved differently than those in the sedentary rats.
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Because the rats are endangered, scientists cannot directly do experiments on them.
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It's like chasing rats out of one hole and straight into another.
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Others of the rats followed a low-calorie diet but didn't exercise.
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I had never seen so many rats in such a small area.
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Don't worry, there's plenty of proper signage, and thankfully, no real rats.
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The rats climbed into what is essentially a plastic container on wheels.
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AAA warns that modern cars offer a "smorgasbord of treats" for rats.
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The Oddities and Curiosities class was $100, all tools (and rats) provided.
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Then two mole rats in a lab were found to have it.
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Prosecutors sometimes achieve courtroom success by relying on the testimony of rats.
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For city leaders past and present, rats have presented a Sisyphean challenge.
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Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra inserted rats into a captive pregnant woman's vagina.
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"We have two rats quote 'Happy Gilmore' in an episode," Luciano said.
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Pigeons are nesting around the store's cooling system, providing food for rats.
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Scientific research involving rats is traditionally based on strict control and conditioning.
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Needless to say, teaching rats to play hide-and-seek wasn't easy.
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However, research has occurred only in mice, rats and laboratory Petri dishes.
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Afterward, a pair of scientific stories highlight studies on sharks and rats.
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There were also rats in the walls and holes in the floors.
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Even if the crowds, the wins, the plastic rats and Buffett reappear.
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Those feelings aren't totally unreasonable, though — rats are a really big problem.
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Bobby says rats couldn't proliferate if it weren't for our bad behavior.
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It's why we're typically okay with squirrels but grossed out by rats.
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Water Rats with producer Elizabeth Ai (left) and director Gandja Monteiro (right).
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There were rats everywhere and you had to get rid of them.
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That doesn't just include the rats digging into the walls and trash bags of New York City (which Spurlock captures in all its creepiness) — we then go to Mumbai, where people are hired to go out at night and kill rats with their bare hands; Cambodia, where rats are caught in the country to be made into delicious meals in town; England, where ferocious terriers hunt down rats with glee; and back to the US in New Orleans, where since Hurricane Katrina the rat population has increased, with some carrying debilitating diseases.
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In 2011, through a breakthrough experiment conducted on rats trained to push a lever, he demonstrated he could record the initial memory codes, feed them into an algorithm, and then send stronger codes back into the rats' brains.
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In the latest rodent study (PDF), released Friday, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences gave rats high doses of radiation every day for two years and compared them with rats that did not receive radiation.
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Commissioner Williams said "we prefer to eradicate" rats, as opposed to cats whose very presence encourages the rats that they don't kill to move else where, but no one from the city seems likely to stop the program.
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For that they can thank Kelly Lambert, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Richmond, who has trained rats to operate custom "rat-operated vehicles" (you can't just order a car made for rats on Amazon, after all).
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The strongest claims in favor of A21 milk draw from studies performed on rats, which showed that digestion of A21 protein releases BCM-22, a natural opioid formed in the stomach upon drinking milk, which inflamed the rats' intestines.
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Hantavirus is usually spread through contact with rodents—such as the deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats the white-footed mouse—and is usually transmitted to humans when they are bitten or come into contact with fresh rodent droppings.
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To tackle this problem, a team of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania exposed rats to an acute stress and then allowed the rodents to self-administer alcohol after being stressed while the team monitored the rats' neuronal activity.
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But this seems not to be true of rats raised in the presence of a predator whom they can do nothing to avoid or outwit —rats that feel helpless in the face of, so to speak, a cat wave.
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Risk-averse rats receiving pramipexole turned into risk-taking rats, but the drug had much greater effects when piped directly into the nucleus accumbens than when it was administered to another brain area researchers had thought might be involved.
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The researchers also found that the male rats in the high-exposure group appeared to live longer than the other rats, but more research is needed to determine why and how that may be relevant to the study results.
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They're really just boxes you put babies in to keep the rats away.
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They can kill rats but they have no reason to, in our cities.
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Italians were referred to – openly – as a subhuman race of rats and criminals.
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We are not mere lab rats shaped by the false information we encounter.
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The testing rats sniff at least ten sets of ten samples every weekday.
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Still, he's convinced the rats have a crucial role to play in diagnosis.
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But they still produce a smell that can be detected by the rats.
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So when he got the rats' result showing TB, he was so happy.
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Plague, which is mainly spread by flea-carrying rats, is endemic in Madagascar.
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But some scientists claim any comparisons between humans and rats are unreliable.—Motherboard
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Also the sea, because rats can swim for a mile without getting tired.
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Accused of two felonies, Schlongface hurtles toward Earth and Republicans scatter like rats.
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Mice and rats are often early candidates for testing neural implants, Widge explained.
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To do this, they've enlisted the help of some cute participants: lab rats.
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"We're more likely to get something from rats than from tigers," Pennings said.
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Under normal circumstances most rats preferred the harder task for the bigger reward.
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Even some errant cinder blocks on the ground were overrun with fake rats.
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It was something…well, there might have been rats in my elementary school.
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Octopuses perform quite well in such tests but not as well as rats.
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Naked mole rats are innately humorous creatures, but these ones are extra special.
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A study from earlier this year confirmed that rats do love being tickled.
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Of course, just like humans, some rats love being tickled more than others.
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The Mill Rats average about 1,800 fans at their home games, he said.
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Good luck, churro rats, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
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Rats live for two years—why should evolution worry about degenerative brain diseases?
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Neuralink's trials so far have been conducted on rats, and, it seems, monkeys.
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In turn, rats eat the infected snails, and the cycle of despair continues.
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During the Nazi era, the film The Eternal Jew depicted Jews as rats.
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"I was studying a reflex called the pseudopregnancy reflex in rats," he explained.
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In another, farmers held dead rats in their mouths to highlight their desperation.
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This also happens to be true of our favorite pizza-toting rodents: rats.
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Nazis referred to Jews as rats, slave owners viewed slaves as subhuman animals.
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They are known to cause kidney cysts and liver failure in laboratory rats.
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The rats became less tolerant of the toxins and began to lose weight.
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There was no food or water for the rats on their little island.
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The tall buildings loom over me, casting menacing shadows that hide scurrying rats.
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Amazingly, the cafe currently "employees" two rats, Emile and Remy, as kitten caretakers.
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The warmer rats couldn't process the toxins in the creosote and got sick.
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She first recorded modest results when testing psychologists' favourite lab rats—their students.
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A few feet away, two rats are rustling around in a parking lot.
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The drug he had used on rats, anisomycin, is too toxic for people.
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Pain insensitivity allows highveld mole-rats to live alongside venomous Natal droptail ants.
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Eater reports that the health department found no evidence of rats or rodents.
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Wild rats practically took over the confectioner's factory, after cuts to extermination costs.
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Finally, the researchers gave rats a psychodelic drug called DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine).
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As I get into a series of siege fights against giant mole rats.
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Here's just a smattering of the comments in the rats vs snakes war.
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After all, prisoners earn stripes on the inside for neutralizing rats and pedophiles.
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Melatonin has been shown to have strong anti-cancer effects in lab rats.
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Inhalation studies in female rats demonstrated carcinogenicity, according to the National Toxicology Program.
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Mice and rats enjoy the same wide range of foods that we do.
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I listen to them talk about eating rats and dropping bombs on marketplaces.
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Unlike in rats, the worm's life cycle is not completed in a human.
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Stacks of dead palm fronds give ample cover for rats and reptiles alike.
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Chicago's war on rats includes a new rodent task force created this April.
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"Hundreds of rats set up shop under decks in our backyard," Nickerson said.
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So we were doing that with Grenache—until the rats just decimated us.
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The dry ice dissipates into carbon dioxide, asphyxiating the rats in their burrows.
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" He and his colleagues schooled 600 rats for the 2003 horror movie "Willard.
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Then some of the rats were allowed to run while others remained sedentary.
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From this angle it's beautiful instead of a revolting stew of sewer rats.
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The shortened life span in the control rats is a real problem, too.
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You have to own that the control rats were somehow magically without cancer.
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We've served families who had parakeets, parrots, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, and chinchillas.
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When you've lived with rats as long as I have, you become paranoid.
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Norwegian rats, NYC's only existent species, are basically built to eat and multiply.
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"We were not seated; we were not surrounded [by rats]," the Chronicle wrote.
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Did the control rats not live long enough to naturally develop these tumors?
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Will the tinny sounds of bats and rats make your brain meat melt?
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But then again, unlike humans, the rats didn't have to deal with traffic.
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This New York boy had seen one too many rats on the subway!
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Much later, a wave of brown rats spread northeast, into Japan and Siberia.
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As much as we dislike brown rats, they may be our staunchest defenders.
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Scientists have known for years that formaldehyde can cause nasal cancer in rats.
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What do you know about feral cats and their relationship to these rats?
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"He doesn't realize in 2018 that it sounds ridiculous to talk about rats."
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Well, that's great for rats, but human sexuality is a little more complicated.
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Some window screens had holes from the rats that had briefly taken over.
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Other animals — including rats, geese and cichlid fish — have also exhibited this capacity.
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Many of the studies weren't done in humans but in rats and mice.
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Another woman panics because her farm's animals have vanished while rats are everywhere.
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There is surprisingly little dirt or grime, and no rats anywhere in sight.
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The city has also used dry ice to smother rats where they live.
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His neighbor had it even worse; his pet parrots were eaten by rats.
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She remembers Petrus deciding how to eliminate the rats in his barn. Poison?
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Some scientists warn it's not enough to just use more female lab rats.
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The contrasts between the two types of rats continued deep inside their cells.
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The other thing is you've got 200 rats, and no one is dead.
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"The Americans are running away like rats," one man could be heard shouting.
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Although the unidentified woman reportedly started with two rats, the rodents multiplied exponentially.
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Instead, the rats concerned acted normally until given their preadolescence doses of THC.
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Rats are among a select group of animals with ancient ties to humans.
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The infamous link between rats and bubonic plague is currently being re-examined.
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Other experiments have suggested that chimpanzees, rats and pigeons have episodic-like memory.
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There are rats, not the usual "Nutcracker" mice, and a menacing Rat Catcher.
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"Rats are capable of breeding every three weeks," said Dr. Michaux, the veterinarian.
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These survivors then produce more baby rats, which inherit the same helpful traits.
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It was once widely believed that the city had more rats than people.
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Clutter and food in homeless encampments offer rats hiding places and additional grub.
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His superiors maintained that only rats want to leave a ship in distress.
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That's proof, the researchers believe, that the rats were just playing for fun.
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"The rats eat the roots of the plants for water," Ms. Bragdon said.
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From then on, fans hurled plastic rats on the ice after every goal.
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Once the bacterium reached the rats of the Roman Empire, it was mayhem.
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We'll program them to catch rats but not fight with the neighbor's cat.
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Street rats are one of the most universally despised creatures on the planet.
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In the Nazi era, the film The Eternal Jew depicted Jews as rats.
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The reason that the rats who had been exposed to stress were drinking more than their non-stressed counterparts is that the stress had altered the neuron physiology of the rats' brains in the reward center, according to the UPenn researchers.
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A hand-harvested wine assures that the wine is made with the best grapes possible, rather than a mishmash of unripe grapes, rotten grapes, rats, and a bunch of sugar to hide all the unripe rotting rats up in your wine.
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Project 259 also showed a statistically significant decrease in triglycerides, a type of fat in blood, in rats that were fed a high-sugar diet and were stripped of bacteria in their guts, compared with conventional rats fed a basic diet.
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In an experiment where humans, rats, and spider monkeys sniffed for six different urine odors, humans were three times more sensitive when it came to one of the odorants but the rats and monkeys were more sensitive to the other ones.
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Found only in the subtropical forests of an island in Japan called Amami Oshima, Amami spiny rats are threatened by habitat destruction, competition with black rats not native to the island and predation by mongooses and feral cats and dogs.
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The old way of poisoning rodents involved a sort of deadly snack service in which park employees put lethal pellets directly into the burrows where the rats lived or sprinkled a poison powder along the underground byways used by the rats.
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If only the fittest rats make it through the control campaign, the survivors may be even better adapted to take advantage of the high-resource minefield of modern cities, leaving a new population of "super rats" to breed and repopulate.
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The memory of childhood neglect in rats appears to be related to epigenetic changes: a gene that acts as a set point for stress—an anxiety rheostat—is dampened in these poorly nurtured rats, resulting in higher levels of stress hormones.
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"To more conclusively determine if the rats' behavior was a form of play, Vonk said "it would be nice to see if rats respond similarly if an inanimate object, like a doll, is the partner, compared to a live experimenter.
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Two centuries later, their domesticated successors (a subspecies known as "fancy rats") are commonly sold in pet stores and kept in homes around the world, even in New York City, whose feral population of brown rats numbers in the millions.
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Cats and mice, it now turns out, are quite easy: dogs and rats hard.
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In a groundbreaking paper, Dr. Tolman analyzed several laboratory experiments involving rats and mazes.
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The embryos developed into chimeras, rats containing a mixture of mouse and rat cells.
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I was surprised to learn that cats aren't even that good at killing rats.
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Packs of rats circled him, eager for his last breath, but he kept moving.
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Many Florida residents now consider them as pests, on par with rats and squirrels.
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The overwhelming focus in the field now is on dogs—and the African rats.
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Baby rats are first taken from their mothers when they're about five weeks old.
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As a result, mole-rats switch to another energy pathway when there's no oxygen.
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He would excitedly descended the gritty staircases, and laugh when he saw massive rats.
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The rats are also deployed to detect explosives in minefields from Cambodia to Colombia.
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Future studies are likely to involve taking a peek at the rats' microbiomes too.
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And in rats, injections of CCK at very high doses put them to sleep.
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I actively avoided pigeons on the street (and probably called them "rats with wings").
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When the rats had a bacterial infection and didn't eat, however, they all survived.
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It turns out that pizza isn't the only food rats have a taste for.
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In a 2014 study, researchers injected Botox into the bulbospongious muscle of male rats.
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The question is, which makes your skin crawl more: the sexism or the rats?
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Still, the family loved the local zoo, with its meerkats and naked mole rats.
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A report on the study, conducted in rats and mice, is not finished yet.
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News of the newly empowered rats was first broken by New Scientist on Tuesday.
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The rats that hit the target were given Froot Loops as well-deserved treats.
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The rats were not as interested in the things that had appeared rewarding before.
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"It is puzzling why the control [rats] had short survival rate," one researcher wrote.
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There's a part that's filled with water, which she has rats drag stuff across.
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My understanding is that you can't get these type of rats in pet stores.
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Driving helped the rats feel more relaxed, said the study's lead author Kelly Lambert.
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The result was two rats whose hearts pumped blood around a shared circulatory system.
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But that deal dried up, and the Mill Rats work to make ends meet.
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He is also conducting experiments to see if rats fed organic foods are healthier.
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SCNT has been used to clone 23 animal species, including cats, dogs, and rats.
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Though Cytoxan is toxic, Ader's rats hadn't received anything close to a fatal dose.
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His home was so poor that the rats slept six to a bed too.
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"SEVEN rats eliminated," began one voice message in a WhatsApp chat in El Salvador.
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Along with worrying passengers, rats can cause serious damage to a plane's electrical system.
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In both cases — rats and humans — marijuana changed how genes work in sperm cells.
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The rescuers raced back to the median, scooping up rats, furious at the injustice.
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The introduction of goats and rats preyed on the local population and their eggs.
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Out on East Anglia Desert Rats Facebook Page, someone had recognized Tom and Ben.
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Every day the rats were fed chow with ever increasing amounts of creosote resin.
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In 2011, a Qantas flight was grounded after baby rats were found on board.
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Falgayrac estimates that there are 1.75 rats for every resident in the French capital.
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The following day, however, the rats no longer froze when they heard the bell.
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Smugglers of pangolins, elephant tusks and rhino horn, meet your match: the sniffing rats.
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They're not the prettiest things on the planet, but mole-rats are unquestionably cool.
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Dead and near-dead humans explode into a pile of dangerous rats and bugs.
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Karl Campbell is looking for a better method than poisons to eradicate island rats.
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Of course, there's no guarantee that what works in rats will work in people.
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It's truly terrifying, even if things like mice or rats don't freak you out.
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The definitive findings: 6% of male rats developed a rare type of heart cancer.
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But the software's not really the important part, there's better RATs [Remote Access Tools].
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These arrivals hunted it, and also brought rats with them, which ate nestling chicks.
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Swimming through sewage, rotting rats and dead dogs, I struggled to finish the race.
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In some abandoned homes, the only residents are skunks, raccoons, rats and feral cats.
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The snakes, after all, prevent even bigger infestations of rats, which would reduce yields.
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Before the brewery got its colony, the rats bit holes into their grain bags.
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As far as the rats are concerned, no one is protesting on their behalf.
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But it's the type of work that often progresses to rats and, eventually people.
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Don't ask Monsanto; according to them, rats eating their GMO corn do just fine.
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We have these giant mutant vineyard rats that basically ate the entire first crop.
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I mean, referring to ... Mexicans as rapists and talking about the rats in Baltimore.
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Rats and raccoons scamper in the spaces between floors and sometimes in the elevators.
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Of course, rats are not people, any more than mice are, Dr. Shetty said.
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So anything the mushrooms leave behind could be fed to the rats, Walsh suggests.
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In Denkenberger's calculations, all of humanity could be eating rats after just two years.
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Oddly, the male rats in the control group lived much shorter lives than expected.
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No schwannomas of the heart were observed in the control group of male rats.
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And then, in the evenings, they kill guys and shove rats in their mouths.
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Her cast of grotesques runs from melting zombies to rats in Disney Princess dresses.
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She looks around for unsafe conditions, for dirt, for mess, for bugs or rats.
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But a hundred years ago, mankind came along, bringing pests, black rats, with them.
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It could well be an encyclopedia of Trump-related rats ratting on each other.
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She appeared in ceremonial robes and introduced him to her army of trained rats.
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It evoked nostalgia through absurdity, the way Hot Rats or Garden of Delete did.
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But, like Cronuts and pizza rats, the ramen burger was only available in NYC.
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Next, the researchers gave the rats a drug called anisomycin, which inhibits protein synthesis.
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Rats have persisted through the city's Disney-fication in the 90s and early 2000s.
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But I can remember the smell—[there were] rats everywhere and small animals' feces.
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Lambert said it appears as if the act of driving actually relaxed the rats.
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But the populations have been decimated by invasive species, including rats, and habitat destruction.
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Rats deprived of R.E.M. will eat more, and yet they also will lose weight.
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The drug shut down the rats' ability to learn about and respond to threats.
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They eat rats and mice and are voracious hunters of birds, squirrels and chipmunks.
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These are times of war, and for one Brooklyn man, the rats struck first.
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Having developed this immunity, they can live where other mole rats fear to tread.
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His favorite audience consisted of junior high school and high school coaches, gym rats.
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I really think you're all underestimating the sheer volume of rats at play here.
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Scientists at the University of Chicago further explored the nature of empathy in rats.
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Health professionals do not respond to economic carrots and sticks like rats in mazes.
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