Rat sex

Rats are prolific breeders. A female rat has an oestrous cycle of about days and can get pregnant immediately after giving birth. There are other benefits to knowing what sex your rats are so that appropriate preventive health measures can be put into place to prevent disease and illness. In this video, Dr James demonstrates how you can learn to identify the differences between male and female rats. Jump to.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Rats have similar physiological reactions to humans when it comes to sex, and perhaps also to orgasm. In fact, a good deal of what we know about what happens in our brains during orgasm comes from the laboratory rat. While much of what happens in the brain during human orgasm remains a mystery , decades of research by scientists has helped unravel some of the secrets. One of the main reason why some aspects of research have advanced so much so far is the use of animals in research. In our lab, lead by James Pfaus at the Centro De Investigaciones Cerebrales and Concordia University, animals are helping us understand what orgasms are all about. By conducting this research we hope to better understand human sexual interactions and the reason we might be attracted to certain people, scents and places.

More specifically, he studies the neurological changes in female rats when they are mating. How long has female pleasure been ignored from the mix of variables of scientific research about sex? Got three hours for me to spout it all off? Rats, like all animals, do not fuck with the conscious motivation of reproduction.

Metrics details. Not including female rats or mice in neuroscience research has been justified due to the variable nature of female data caused by hormonal fluctuations associated with the female reproductive cycle. In this study, we investigated whether female rats are more variable than male rats in scientific reports of neuroscience-related traits.