«Working with olfaction, we found out they're even
smarter than rats in some ways.»
Not exact matches
But sometime later, I read an article about two researchers who discovered that mother
rats were
smarter — specifically in learning and memory capacity —
than rats that never had babies.
One group had been bred to be good at navigating mazes, the other had been bred to be bad at it, so much so that the «maze - dull»
rats made on average 40 per cent more mistakes when navigating a maze
than their «maze -
smart» friends.
Rats are certainly
smarter and cuddlier
than they get credit for.
Laboratory studies have even demonstrated that
rats raised in cages with toys are
smarter than ones raised in empty cages.