If you believe that mice love cheese, rabbits love carrots, and elephants love peanuts...you're wrong. Here are six incorrect beliefs about what animals like to eat.

Eliminating certain gut bacteria causes mice to binge-eat foods high in sugar. The corresponding study was published in Current Biology. “The gut microbiome has been shown to influence many behaviors ...

Even children learn from numerous books and cartoons that cheese is a real treat for mice and that they are sometimes even responsible for the holes in the cheese. PETBOOK clarifies what is true about ...

Researchers studied brainstem activity of mice while the animals were awake and eating. Susanne Ludwig / 500px via Getty Images As animals eat, brain activity tells them when to stop. In a recent ...

Various parts of our brain affect different behaviors. Scientists tested a particular area of the cerebellum in mice to see how it affects eating. Activation of specific neurons will limit how much ...

Making decisions is hard. Even when we know what we want, our choice often leaves something else on the table. For a hungry mouse, every morsel counts. But what if the decision is more consequential ...