• Question: rats are usually disliked animals, how did you grow love for them

    Asked by anon-180498 to Amy, Abby, Noel, Sam, Viren on 14 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-180481.
    • Photo: Abby Hunter

      Abby Hunter answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      I don’t do any research with rats or any other animals. Can’t say I love rats!

    • Photo: Amy Warnock

      Amy Warnock answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      I think rats have a very bad reputation for being dirty and spreading disease, for example when the bubonic plague spread people blamed rats but it was actually fleas! Rats are actually very clean and I like them because they are incredibly intelligent animals – they can be taught to do very complex memory tasks like solving mazes. I think we have rats to thank for a lot as by using them in research we have learnt loads about the human body/brain and it has allowed us to develop cures for many diseases!

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