This probably isn’t a question you’ve asked yourself lately, but perhaps that should change. How many descendants could a pair of rats produce in three years? The answer: nearly half a billion. That ...

African giant pouched rats have an exceptional sense of smell - they are used to detect land mines and tuberculosis - but scientists know very little about their biology or social structure, and ...

Many people who work in laboratory rodent breeding facilities believe that disrupting certain sensitive rodent lines will result in increased breeding failures and loss of newborn pups. To evaluate ...

Naked mole-rats live in colonies of two breeders and around 300 non-breeding workers. Although the breeding pair carries the metabolic cost of reproduction and, in the queen's case, lactation, they ...

Archipelago case-study shows that removing invasive rats and restoring native vegetation could help bring back hundreds of thousands of breeding pairs of seabirds lost to tropical islands. Calculating ...