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Oct 15, 2014 · There are things—like processing primate faces, for example—that monkeys are certainly better at than rats or mice. And primates are likely to outperform rodents on complex reasoning tasks.
Oct 8, 2014 · Most biologists, for example, assume that rats, with larger brains, are smarter than mice. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists now challenge this belief. They compared mice and...
Oct 4, 2024 · Are rats smarter than hamsters. Rats and hamsters both exhibit intelligence, but rats typically come out ahead in terms of problem-solving abilities and adaptability. While hamsters have their own charm, rats have shown remarkable cognitive skills in various experiments.
Oct 15, 2014 · For at least a hundred years researchers have used rats in their psychology experiments, assuming that they were the smarter of the two lab rodents. But new research shows that that might not...
Basically, they are only just as smart as they need to be in their typical habitat. They don't waste energy building up a big brain; they use that energy to spend more time eating and making babies. However, rats are different because they are omnivores.
Rats are pretty intelligent -- one poster said that his pet rat split a snack with him, dividing it in two. (To me this is especially poignant since the rat was given the snack by his owner anyway, but the rat was doing his/her best to show appreciation.)
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In the first task, the patterns varied on only one dimension—either orientation or spacing—and rats and humans performed it equally well. In the second, the patterns varied on both dimensions ...
