Caged mice aren't the only animals that enjoy a spin on the old exercise wheel. New video footage reveals wild mice, rats, and even frogs and slugs like running (or crawling) on wheels, too. These ...

In 2014, a team of Dutch scientists set out to conduct an unusual experiment. They placed a hamster wheel in the wild to see ...

The benefits of exercise for health are becoming increasingly clear. Wheel running is often used in the laboratory to study the effects of enhanced activity levels in rodents. The biological ...

Over the course of six weeks, mice logged 300 miles each on hamster wheels in a lab in Boston. OK, that was not the main point of the study—that would be to look at the effect of a high-sugar, ...

Voluntary wheel running occurs in mice of all strains, sexes, and ages. Mice find voluntary wheel running rewarding, and it leads to numerous health benefits. For this reason wheels are used both to ...

Some mice demonstrate excessive food-grinding behaviors in which food pellets are broken down into crumbs (orts). This is considered abnormal behavior and is undesirable in a research environment, as ...