rats

It seems like putting rats through little rat challenges would be stimulating and result in happier rats as well.

The problem is that the automakers went to microcontroller busses because this creates a rats nest of wires.

You end up with a rats nest of spaghetti code often, for example, unless you use structured programming macros.

This parasite is thought to make animals (from rats to humans) more docile, less aggressive, and possibly like cats more.

Why is it ok with everyone that triplebyte is using desperate job seekers as lab rats?

This just sounds like a rehashing of the famous Rat Park experiments, where happy rats in a good (from a rat's perspective) environment refused morphine, but rats in traditional cages guzzled it.

That's not the case with octopuses or lab rats or what have you.

This caused an overpopulation of rats which started spreading typhoid and plague.

Cerebrolysin has a very real effect, and we know that from studies in rats and humans.

But what about in vivo experiments with mice and rats?

I've also heard that the FDA likes to see more than one animal, so either rats or monkeys may be dosed as well.

At most only slightly exaggerating: we're all analogous to lab rats, now, in Google's massive-scale human-subject psychological research project with unprecedented amounts of automated surveillance and stimulus production.

That page says "The outbreak in Constantinople was thought to have been carried to the city by infected rats on grain boats arriving from Egypt.[7] To feed its citizens, the city and outlying communities imported massive amounts of grain—mostly from Egypt.

I'm struggling to find the bit in this[1] set of lectures where something like this was mentioned (I only got to #15 so far); not this study of course, but something about rats being more prone to stress (he was more specific than that) depending on how stressed their mother was (again, that's how I remember it), and that it takes 4-5 generations for that to return to "normal".