Norway rats
Habitat use by kiore (Rattus exulans) and Norway rats (R. norvegicus) on Kapiti Island, New Zealand
... to infer habitat use (Dick 1985; Sturmer 1988; King et al. 1996; Innes et al. 2001; Harper et al. 2005; Harper & Veitch 2006) and some authors have investigated diet in an attempt to identify niche overlap (Dick ...
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Experimental evidence for reciprocity in allogrooming among wild type Norway rats
... that Norway rats indeed apply reciprocity rules when allogrooming each ...of rats to return this favour to their social ...whether rats modify their grooming service according to their ...
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Home ranges and interactions of kiore (Rattus exulans) and Norway rats (R. norvegicus) on Kapiti Island, New Zealand
... ship rats from the Marshall Islands, in ...ship rats and McCartney and Marks hypothesised that, in areas of sympatry, reproduction by kiore would be adversely affected, perhaps leading to ...and ...
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In vivo and in vitro studies of 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide in wild-caught female brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) and Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) and its potential as a fertility control agent
... female Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) and its effects on the health and ovarian follicle populations of treated ...and rats while not directly affecting numbers of preantral and antral follicles ...
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Migration of Norway Rats Resulted in the Worldwide Distribution of Seoul Hantavirus Today
... the rats, which were grouped into phylogroup A, completely coincide with the first phylo- group of SEOV ...the Norway rats captured in the mountainous areas of Ningyuan in Hunan province and Yongjia ...
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Sex Differences in Seoul Virus Infection Are Not Related to Adult Sex Steroid Concentrations in Norway Rats
... of Norway rats. Among adult rats, how- ever, males (90%) tend to be infected with Seoul virus more often than females (75%) (7, ...male rats are more likely to be wounded than either females ...
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Species Abundance Distribution of Ectoparasites on Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) from a Localized Area in Southwest China
... 431 Norway rats in a local- ized area (the area surrounding Erhai Lake of Dali), Yunnan Province, southwest ...the rats were infested by ectoparasites with a mean abundance of ...
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Western diet-induced hepatic steatosis and alterations in the liver transcriptome in adult Brown-Norway rats
... WD-fed rats was the ‘ Superpathway of cholesterol biosynthesis ’ (10/29 genes regulated, p = ...WD-fed rats (p = ...WD-fed rats (approximately 30-fold, FDR = ...
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Sex differences in performance on a cognitive bias task in Norway rats
... unrewarding, are commonly found in humans suffering from anxiety disorders. Cognitive biases are also increasingly used as indicators of affective state in animals. As it is not clear whether female and male animals ...
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Explaining social learning of food preferences without aversions: an evolutionary simulation model of Norway rats
... Germany Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) transmit preferences for novel foods socially by smelling each other's ...However, rats fail to learn aversions, acquiring a preference even if the rat whose ...
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Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) on the Noises and Motukawao Islands, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand
... which Norway rats could have colonised the Noises ...Noises. Norway rats commonly live in waterfront areas, and any dumped with the garbage could have floated to the Noises on the rafts of ...
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Hepatitis E virus in Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) captured around a pig farm
... Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) were caught, using commercial snap traps at 6 different locations, around a pig farm where HEV genotype 3 was prevalent among pigs (Hokkaido, Japan) ...
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Eradication of Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus) from Hawea- Island, Fjordland, Using Brodifacoum
... of Norway rats from Hawea Island, Fiordland, using the anticoagulant rodenticide "Talon 50 WB" (ICI New Zealand Ltd), a wax briquette formulation containing ...that Norway rats were ...
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Vitamin K supplementation does not prevent bone loss in ovariectomized Norway rats
... Vitamin K fed in one of three forms, PK, MK-4 and MK-7, for 6 weeks did not prevent bone loss in OVX Norway rats. These data lend support to the hypothesis that high doses of vitamin K do not have a ...
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Effect of the sensitization to Dermatophagoïdes pteronyssinus on the inflammatory response and bronchoconstrictive of brown Norway rats
... sensitized rats brown Norwway with allergenic proteins from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Der P1 and Der P2) for a better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of this ...brown Norway ...
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Social learning and information sharing: an evolutionary simulation model of foraging in Norway rats
... Noble, J., Tucci, E. and Todd, P.M. (1999) Social learning and information sharing: an evolutionary simulation model of foraging in Norway rats. In: Advances in artificial life : 5th European Conference, ...
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Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) communicate need, which elicits donation of food
... female Norway rats exposed to a variant of the iterated Prisoner’s dilemma game show signs of need by a regular sequence of ...First, rats reach towards the food, then they emit 50- kHz ultrasonic ...
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Laboratory rats as trap lures for invasive Norway rats: field trial and recommendations
... invasive rats include kill traps, tracking tunnels, and poison stations, all of which are food baited (Dilks & Towns 2002; Howald et ...pest rats are at low densities, such as during the early stages ...
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Do female Norway rats form social bonds?
... wild-type Norway rats (source: Animal Physiology Department, University of Groningen, Netherlands) weighing on average 300g, at an age of ...birth) rats were assigned to their housing group and ...
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Relatedness decreases and reciprocity increases cooperation in Norway rats
... wild-type Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) to experimentally study the relative importance of kin selection and reciprocity underlying food ...donations. Rats are highly social animals living in ...
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