However, this lifespan can vary significantly depending on several factors, including diet, habitat, and predation. In captivity, rats often live longer than their wild counterparts due to access to ...

One faithful dog surprised researchers with the discovery of a lifetime when he found the scat of a broad-toothed rat.

The AI model was able to eventually match the rats’ image processing capabilities, but only after using more and more ...

Wildlife professionals and advocates are grappling with an avian influenza outbreak that seems to be growing more virulent ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

The aim is to create a “halo” of habitat that the birds can expand ... technique that would spread infertility genes through a wild rat population. If fears of unintended consequences can ...

A warmer climate can also extend growing seasons, providing rats more food as well as vegetation to hide in, said Michael Parsons, an urban field ecologist and wild rat expert who was not involved ...

28, 2024, inadvertently set several houses on fire as they hunted wild rats for food to stave off hunger. The villages of Naweet, Modern and Lonangat in the Lorengedwat sub-county of the Nabilatuk ...