SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — Have you ever actually seen a rat hole? Kellie Nightingale has. She and her Salem neighbors said they see dozens of rats and rat holes up and down a stream bank which runs between ...

When two nearly blind naked mole rats encounter each other in a dark subterranean tunnel, it could be a friendly meeting or a moment of potential bloodshed between strangers. The creatures chirp to ...

(CNN)-- Rats can be taught to play hide and seek -- and they squeal with joy when they win, scientists have found. Both wild and domesticated animals have been known to play, but neuroscientists from ...

Mice and rats vocalize. To us, many of the sounds they make are ultrasonic—at too high a frequency to hear. But if we slow the calls down, they sound like squeaks. And not all squeaks are the same.

An estimated three million rats live in the city, which is a little over one-third of the human population. A new study found rats alter their vocalizations depending on the environment and level of ...

The next time you come across a rat darting furtively for cover, consider this: It might just want to have a playful game of hide-and-seek. A group of neuroscientists in Germany spent several weeks ...

Are you squeakin’ at me? Big Apple rats are just as social as some New Yorkers — and even sound like them, speaking to each other with a distinctive accent, a new study found. “Being social helps them ...