Sentence examples for rat behaviour from inspiring English sources

Behavioural pauses, however, also occur as part of the normal rat behaviour.

I mentioned another aspect of rat behaviour that might prove a "hard sell" with the public, namely the well-known tendency of cornered rats to leap for the throat of the nearest human.

Conclusion Lithium overdose alters rat behaviour and consistently induces hypolocomotion which is more marked and prolonged in repeatedly lithium-treated rats.

Tactile stimulation significantly altered rat behaviour on the novel object recognition task and Whishaw tray reaching task, but failed to have an effect on behaviour in the elevated plus maze or activity box.

Further study of rat behaviour may be needed to better understand these relationships.

The basic movement was recorded by monitoring rat behaviour in the automated elevated plus maze.

We also investigated the rats' behaviour with the objects in an open field and found that rats spent longer climbing on top of the large object.

The simplest explanations for that pattern suggest that the rats' behaviour is adaptive because a diversity of foods allows them to ingest a wider range of nutrients, or maybe because it allows them to avoid overdependence on a possibly limited food source.

We developed a structurally realistic individual-based model, mobilizing knowledge about fleas and rats behaviour, inter-individual plague transmission, and disease evolution in individual organisms, so that the model reflects the way the real system operates and to generate spatial and temporal patterns of disease spread.

The second exposure occurred 24h afterwards and lasted 5 minutes during which rats behaviour was videotaped and subsequently scored by a trained experimenter blind to the animal experimental group.

The delivery of the food reward did not depend upon the rats' behaviour.