I was offered the position of provincial plant pathologist for Alberta Agriculture by Joe Gurba, head of the crop protection ...

The brown rat, the R. norvegicus, originated somewhere in Central Asia, began to migrate westward early in the eighteenth century, and reached England around 1730. Most authorities believe that it ...

He doubts that he will ever have to pay up. The dominant rat in New York City is the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, also known as the brown rat. Brown rats are burrowing animals that are widest at ...

South Africa is faced with an enormous and ever-increasing rat population that could cause serious diseases such as bubonic ...

These crafty rodents are the ultimate urbanites. Meet your average city rats: Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus. These rats live pretty much wherever we do. Especially in cities. Take New York ...

The social behaviors of the Rattus norvegicus, commonly known as the Norway rat, are far more complex than previously thought ...

Among all the videos the 'rats' shown are way too big for the ordinary brown rat or Rattus norvegicus, which is most commonly ...

Psychobiology 23:26-36. [Content] Pinel JP, Mumby DG, Dastur FN, Pinel JG (1994) Rat (Rattus norvegicus) defensive behavior in total darkness: risk-assessment function of defensive burying. J Comp ...

The answer to the latter, it became clear, was much more than a T-shirt. The brown rat, or Rattus norvegicus, isn't all that different from the average New Yorker. It hates long commutes and loves ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

Nearly 70% of global communities will likely be living in urban areas by 2050, according to the United Nations. Rats will, too.