The Behavior of the Laboratory Rat —— A Handbook with Tests

Excellent book on laboratory rats. A must-read for psychology students or any individual interested in understanding rat behavior!

It is pretty good. Some chapters excellent, some need some work to be more clear and readable for the general scientific reader who works with rats day-to-day. For instance, the chapter on Strains is very theoretical, starting with hardy-weinberg equilibrium concepts, rather than a nice simple delineation of....strains! Which is not to be found anywhere in the book. Very strange. Would be nice to have a simple description of sprague dawley versus wistar versus (etc). Also, it is very odd that they don't have a chapter on auditory behavior, while they have one on vision. Rats are stronger in the auditory than visual modalities...They are nocturnal and not the most visually astute beings in the world. But some of the chapters are pretty good, so it belongs in your library if you work on the behavior of rats.

An expensive book for a pet owner but if you see one going cheap it’s worth buying. I learn a lot about my rats and I was especially impressed by the chapter on whiskers.

It is pretty good. Some chapters excellent, some need some work to be more clear and readable for the general scientific reader who works with rats day-to-day. For instance, the chapter on Strains is very theoretical, starting with hardy-weinberg equilibrium concepts, rather than a nice simple delineation of....strains! Which is not to be found anywhere in the book. Very strange. Would be nice to have a simple description of sprague dawley versus wistar versus (etc). Also, it is very odd that they don't have a chapter on auditory behavior, while they have one on vision. Rats are stronger in the auditory than visual modalities...They are nocturnal and not the most visually astute beings in the world. But some of the chapters are pretty good, so it belongs in your library if you work on the behavior of rats.

An expensive book for a pet owner but if you see one going cheap it’s worth buying. I learn a lot about my rats and I was especially impressed by the chapter on whiskers.