In the 1950s, neuroscientist Curt Richter demonstrated how the act of rescuing wild rats from a swim challenge could instill ...

Wildlife trafficking. The illegal practice involves capturing, killing and selling of wildlife and byproducts including pelts, ivory, plants and furs and more. These illicit products are often traded ...

African giant pouched rats have been trained to sniff out illegal animal parts like elephant tusks and rhino horns to catch ...

African giant pouched rats have been used to detect explosives and are being trained for search and rescue operations ...

Those included Portland Mountain Rescue, Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue, the Hood River Crag Rats, a helicopter from the ...

Wildlife advocates are sounding the alarm once again about rodenticide, poison used to control rat populations, after sick ...

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Your support makes all the difference. The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant ...

APOPO is also training “rescue rats” to potentially save lives. The work was published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science. The researchers worked with 11 rats ...