A rat abatement poster hangs on a lamppost in a Chicago alley, announcing the area's last visit by city rodent control workers. Credit: Shawn Mulcahy My hair is neatly combed these days, no longer the ...

Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion, and this information transfer is at least partially mediated by a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex. Rats exchange ...

Most people don't have very favorable opinions on rats, who are maligned in urban landscapes for rifling through trash, carrying diseases and generally being creepy scavengers. Their long tails are ...

Let’s face facts: Rats depend on us. They live where we live and eat what we eat. So the District’s chief of rodent control was not surprised that complaints about the pests increased by nearly 30% ...

They might not be everyone’s favourite animals, but rats are far more fascinating than most people think. These small rodents have lived close to humans for centuries, quietly adapting to every kind ...

Q. My new year’s resolution is to clean out my garage and get rid of any pesticides that are expired, not needed, or harmful to wildlife. How do I find out what I should get rid of? Do fertilizers ...

While residents may not pay much attention to the Garden City’s familiar fauna – rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks, to name a few – nothing makes people recoil like the discovery of rats on their ...

Ernie Schicchi thinks like a rat. And it’s a valuable way to think right now, with New York City so overridden with rodents that Mayor Adams wants to appoint a “rat czar” to clean up the place. Having ...

In the light of a round, bright moon, under a yellow-flowered bush, a young rattlesnake was no doubt enjoying its late-night snack of endangered rat until the biologists came near. “I think it’s ...