Rats emit a high-pitched squeak when around another rat, seemingly just to express a positive emotion By Christa Lesté-Lasserre 7 November 2023 ...

Jordan Bani-Younes from the Kansas Humane Society brought Invierno and Otoño by KSN News at Noon for Thursday’s Pet Project ...

Some rats are more ticklish than others – and you can tell by how much they squeak with ‘laughter’ Rat call patterns could be used to measure their emotional response to actions; ...

A new art installation lets rats pick their poison. Brooklyn artist Hunter Fine, 38, has opened seven rodent-sized gin mills around New York City in an effort to raise awareness about rat infestati… ...

Unwanted guests are squeaking through the Treasure Valley – rats. They’ve been around since at least 2020, but residents are now saying they are becoming even more apparent. Jane Rohling has ...

During social interactions, rats make ultrasonic vocalizations, imperceptible to the human ear, which reflect their emotions. For example, when happy, they tend to emit squeaks at about 50 kHz.

The squeak-ret is out. A new update to a popular app is showing New Yorkers just how rat-infested their subway stations are. Transit, an urban trip-planning app first released in 2012, recently ...

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell.

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO apa… ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new record by detecting over 100 landmines in Cambodia since August 2021, surpassing the previous record held by Magawa. Trained by Belgian organization APOPO, Ronin is ...

An MP has said “rats the size of cats”, named the Squeaky Blinders, as a result of Birmingham bin strikes are “not welcome” beyond the city’s boundaries.. Conservative former minister ...