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Topic: rats

Mouse on a mirror (Getty Images/Kseniia Glazkova)

Mice recognize their own reflection

Matthew Rozsa
A rat eats on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

The world is full of "outcast rats"

Pamela Appea
Human brain scan | Laboratory rat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are rats the key to an Alzheimer's cure?

Pamela Appea
A bumblebee, chimpanzee and humpback whale (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do animals have social lives?

Matthew Rozsa
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

How vermin helped shape the modern world

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Sewer rat vs Pet rat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Rats in our house, rats in our streets

Ellen Friedrichs
A deer stag, dog, rat and mink looking at COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

COVID-19 infects the animal world

Matthew Rozsa
Curious white laboratory rat looking out of a cage in a laboratory (Getty Images)

The rodent genocide in research labs

Matthew Rozsa
(<a href='url to photographer'>Helko Kiera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Super rats or sickly rodents?

Jonathan Richardson - The Conversation
Rats in a University of Richmond lab have learned to drive in little cars. (Kelly Lambert/University of Richmond)

Lab rats relaxed after driving tiny cars

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Salon)

How housecats are killing seals

Nicole Karlis
A Paris employee shows a dead rat in the Saint Jacques Tower park, in the center of Paris, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Paris is on a new rampage against rats, trying to shrink the growing rodent population. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

What's behind the ratpocalypse?

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
(iStockphoto/lculig)

How sex may help us learn

Gina Mantica
(Screenshot, National Geographic)

Lindsay Abrams
(Eric Isselee/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='url to photographer'>Helko Kiera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

NYC rats so, so foul

Joanna Rothkopf
(Emi/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(J.Schelkle/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Shutterstock)

Shuancy Ferro - Popular Science
(Shutterstock)

Natasha Lennard
(Wikimedia)

Prachi Gupta
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