Rats and mice, common urban pests, differ significantly in size, behavior, and nesting habits, impacting control strategies. Understanding these distinctions is crucial for effective pest management, ...

Is there a difference in the way males and females react to certain types of drugs? That's the latest question the National Institute of Health (NIH) is trying to answer. A new $10.1 million study ...

New research suggests that the commonly used ‘lab mouse’ may display behaviors entirely distinct from their wild-derived counterparts, prompting new considerations for the future of animal-based ...

From aardvark to zebra, there are more than 4,000 species of mammals. Yet the vast majority of our medical research today uses just one species — the house mouse. We've bet the farm, so to speak, on ...

Avoidance learning is part of an organism’s survival instinct, as it develops a response to evade a hostile stimulus before it happens. After experiencing an unpleasant stimulus, organisms start to ...