Feb 20, 2015 | animals helping humans, Conditions
“What can we learn about attention by studying bats and owls?” A lot! Humans, bats, and owls potentially have a common trait; they may all use memory to navigate around their environments. Not only do we potentially navigate in similar fashions, our neural circuits may function in many of the same ways. By performing tests […]
Jul 29, 2014 | animal research, animals helping humans
Mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, pigs, monkeys – and of course guinea pigs. These are the animals you typically think of when you think of medical miracles. Did you know, though, that so many other animals have given us some pretty amazing medical breakthroughs? Here’s just a few of them. In research circles, they’re often called […]
