There is mounting evidence that even surprisingly simple animals, like invertebrates, have a level of consciousness - but not ...

In Skinner box experiments, animals are deprived of food or water beforehand and may receive a reward, like food pellets, or a punishment, like an electrical shock, for pushing the levers.

The strange thing about Skinner’s lab rats was that three generations after the pregnant mothers were exposed to the fungicide, the animals had abnormally low sperm counts— but not because of ...

To drive home that complexity, he proposed experiments in rats that would tinker with rodent culture and cooperation, and in so doing, defuse a potential ticking population bomb.

Skinner later tested rats’ exposure to an herbicide called glyphosate. The chemical did not harm the rats’ offspring.

French artist Augustin Linier placed two male rats he bought at a pet store in a Skinner box designed by behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner to conduct learning experiments on rats.

The artist said he drew inspiration from scientific experiments, developed by Skinner during the 1950s, that trained animals to complete complex tasks.