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Both groups produced similar hormone spikes when stressed, but in the juvenile rats, levels took much longer to return to normal.

The team has already been placing them in rats and primates.

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Other researchers studied what happens when adolescent rats move into “enriched” environments.

Blueberry-fed rats spent almost 70 percent of their time exploring the new object, as expected of animals that recognized the old object.

Even if they find your trash can instead, he adds, “that’s necessarily going to support fewer rats.”

One rat had once fallen on his head, he said, during a rat raid of a local home.

Since rat root comes from a plant that grows on the edge of the lake there are concerns that the plant is carrying toxins.

Chief Adam offers us some of the local medicine called rat root.

The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.

A cabin filled with the Rat Pack and the ladies who loved them.

Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.

He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."

Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.

I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.

Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rat, such as: betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, double-crosser, fink, and informant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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