Rats do not eat alone in public: Food-deprived rats socialize rather than competing for baits.
Limited resources result in competition among social animals. Nevertheless, social animals also have innate preferences for cooperative behavior. In the present study, 12 dyads of food-deprived rats were tested in four successive trials, and then re-tested as eight triads of food-deprived rats that...
Main Authors: | Omri Weiss, Alex Dorfman, Tamar Ram, Pazit Zadicario, David Eilam |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5344391?pdf=render |
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