Running on an exercise wheel doesn’t make rats forget previous trips through an underwater maze, Ashok Shetty and colleagues report August 2 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

The wheel-running rodent is frequently associated with animals inside psychology laboratories. But what would happen if you gave wild animals access to a ...

Rats, frogs and even snails and slugs frequented a running wheel placed in the wild. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

New video shows mice, rats, frogs, voles, shrews and even slugs running (or slithering) on exercise wheels in the wild.

Young rats with access to a running wheel show improved memory later in life and increased activity of neurons generated in adulthood, finds a new study. The results raise the possibility that ...

Though mice accounted for the vast majority of wheel running observations (88 percent), they weren't the only animal to go for a spin on the wheels: shrews, rats, slugs, frogs, and snails also ...

Question: My hamster runs on his wheel all the time. So often, in fact, I often picture that cartoon hamster with all the muscles. Can he over-exercise or will he know when to stop? Why does he do ...

Those videos captured not only mice running on the wheels but also rats, shrews and frogs, and even slugs slowly moving along. The researchers could see that some of the wheel movement was ...

Rat cunning to beat rat running. By Graham Short. February 5, 2009 — 12.00am. ... with a big black rat behind the wheel of a big 4WD with a big stroke through it and the words "No Rat Runners".

After a run-in with an angry rat, a 90-year-old British tortoise named Mrs. T was left without the use of her front legs. But thanks to a prosthetic upgrade from a remote control airplane, this ...