With roughly three million rats living in New York City, scientists set out to understand the daily lives—and speech patterns—of these rodent city-dwellers.

Rats can use the rhythm of human language to tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese, researchers in Spain reported Sunday. Their study suggests that animals, especially mammals, evolved some ...

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Some converse in Creole, while others speak Scots, but it's not only humans who can be identified by the diversity of language they speak. Naked mole-rats have their own dialects, too. Shared dialect ...

New York City lives alongside an enormous rat population, estimated at nearly three million. These creatures prove remarkably ...

A study has found that observing a rat’s facial expressions alone can reveal its decision-making process, effectively demonstrating a form of “mind-reading” that deciphers inner thoughts through body ...