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 wheel-running rodent is frequently associated with animals inside psychology laboratories. But what would happen if you gave wild animals access to a wheel? A pair of researchers found out. While ...

Neurophysiologists in the Netherlands have found that if you place a hamster wheel outdoors in a natural setting, wild animals such as mice will come and run on it voluntarily. This suggests that the ...

You might assume that hamsters spend their days running in wheels out of boredom, but it could be that animals genuinely enjoy the activity! To test this theory, a man placed two wheels in the woods ...